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.
MAXIM GORKYAll of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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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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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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Every new time will give its law.
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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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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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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 the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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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 work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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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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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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