The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
MAXIM GORKYLet 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.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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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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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.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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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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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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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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Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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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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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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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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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.
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