In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.
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In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible — such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?
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When one loves somebody, everything is clear – where to go, what to do – it all takes care of itself and one doesn’t have to ask anybody about anything.
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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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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man – Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?
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The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
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An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.
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When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
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