Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
MAXIM GORKYHunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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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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Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
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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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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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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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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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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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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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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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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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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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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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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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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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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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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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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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