We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free 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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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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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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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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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 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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