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.
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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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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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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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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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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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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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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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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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
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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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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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