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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.

Maxim Gorky

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
MAXIM GORKY

Contemporary Drink Writing
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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Class Force Growth Intellectual
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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Bad Brain Goodness Head Man Stupidity
When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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Easy Oneself Quick Stupidity
Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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Act Hungry Satisfaction
You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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Hide Meaning Philosophy Yourself
One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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Man Praise Whole Woman Word
You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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Better Children Way Writing
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.
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Big Hands Happiness Hold Precious Small
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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Man Reading Sanity Thinking Truth
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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Life Pleasure Responsibility Slave Work
In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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Carriage Past Yourself
Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Delight Ourselves Salvation Work
An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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Brain Honesty Idiot Man Right
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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Age Count Marriage
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Art Goodness Quality Soul Success

The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.

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