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.
MAXIM GORKYJail 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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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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What I’d like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: “Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
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The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.
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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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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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Every new time will give its law.
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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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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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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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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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