You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
MAXIM GORKYWhat can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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Every new time will give its law.
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Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.
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