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.
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.
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.
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.
There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - "Swan Song" is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my book will be incense burnt at the deathbed of this society, damned with the damnation of its own impotence.
Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.
Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
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.
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?
Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.
To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.
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.
But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
All that is called Destiny or Fate is none other than the result of our thoughtlessness and our mistrust of ourselves; we should know that all that is created on earth is created by its sole Master and Laborer -- Man.
What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it.
It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes. There are nightingales in every garden, but police spies only in mine, I think. They sit under my windows in the darkness of the night and try to get a glimpse of how I spread sedition in Russia.
Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends
or simply: