The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
MAXIM GORKYWhen 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 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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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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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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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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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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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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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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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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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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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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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