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.
MAXIM GORKYYou can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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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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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
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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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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty each and every one of us.
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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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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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