The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
MAXIM GORKYTruth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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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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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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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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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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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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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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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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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