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.
MAXIM GORKYAll human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.
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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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In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible — such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?
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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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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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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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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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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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