With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
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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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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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 revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
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The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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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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Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man – Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Let 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.
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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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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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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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