Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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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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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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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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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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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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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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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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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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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Every new time will give its law.
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