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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .
Maxim Gorky
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Maxim Gorky
Age: 68 †
Born: 1868
Born: March 14
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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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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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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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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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 most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.
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What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.
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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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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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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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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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Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.
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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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Politics is the soil in which the nettle of poisonous enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, slander, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the individual grows rapidly and luxuriantly. Name anything bad in man and it is precisely in the soil of political struggle that it grows with particular liveliness and abundance.
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This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold it is time!
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In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.
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All that is called Destiny or Fate is none other than the result of our thoughtlessness and our mistrust of ourselves we should know that all that is created on earth is created by its sole Master and Laborer -- Man.
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An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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