Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
MAXIM GORKYWith his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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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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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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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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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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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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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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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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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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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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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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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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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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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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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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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Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
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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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