The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
MAXIM GORKYHappiness 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.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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Jail doesn’t teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!
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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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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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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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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.
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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.
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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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