Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
MAXIM GORKYOne word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man – Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?
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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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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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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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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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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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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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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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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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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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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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