The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
MAXIM GORKYThe more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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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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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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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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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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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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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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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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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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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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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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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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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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.
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