To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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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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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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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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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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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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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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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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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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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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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.
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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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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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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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