All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
MAXIM GORKYEvery new time will give its law.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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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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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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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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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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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.
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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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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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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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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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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
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