When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.
MAXIM GORKYThe revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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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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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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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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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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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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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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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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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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