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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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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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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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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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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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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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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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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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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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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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When one loves somebody, everything is clear – where to go, what to do – it all takes care of itself and one doesn’t have to ask anybody about anything.
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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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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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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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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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