Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
MAXIM GORKYThe 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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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty each and every one of us.
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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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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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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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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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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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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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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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What 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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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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