One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
MAXIM GORKYEverything which is good in me should be credited to books.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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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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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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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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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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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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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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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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Every new time will give its law.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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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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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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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 the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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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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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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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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