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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

Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
MAXIM GORKY

Freedom Lying Man Master Religion
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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Action Feeling Grave Kill Myself Word
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Past Yourself
Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
MAXIM GORKY

Avoid Carry Function Politics Public
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?
MAXIM GORKY

Avoid Children Cruelty Fight Necessary People War
Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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Book Credit Goodness Myself
Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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Art Cultivation Force Influence Man Science Success
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
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Bitter Guilty Oneself Search Truth
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
Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
MAXIM GORKY

Born Children Future Mom Thinking
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
Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
MAXIM GORKY

Actor Faith Need Oneself Power Talent
Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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Human Material Natural Process
In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
MAXIM GORKY

Carriage Past Yourself
Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
MAXIM GORKY

Class Force Growth Intellectual

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