Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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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There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
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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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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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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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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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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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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
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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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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
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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 human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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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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