The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
MAXIM GORKYWhat can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.
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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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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
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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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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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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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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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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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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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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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