Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
MAXIM GORKYIn the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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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 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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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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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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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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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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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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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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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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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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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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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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