Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
MAXIM GORKYThe most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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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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God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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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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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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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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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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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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