Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
MAXIM GORKYLies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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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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There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
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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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Every new time will give its law.
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The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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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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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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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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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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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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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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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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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
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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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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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