The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
MAXIM GORKYMany contemporary authors drink more than they write.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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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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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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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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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 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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Every new time will give its law.
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Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
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Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty each and every one of us.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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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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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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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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