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 GORKYTwo forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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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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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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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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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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Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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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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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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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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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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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
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