With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
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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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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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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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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All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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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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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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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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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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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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Jail doesn’t teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!
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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 good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
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