The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
MAXIM GORKYTo an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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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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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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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.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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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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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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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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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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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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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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