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.
MAXIM GORKYEverything which is good in me should be credited to books.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
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Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.
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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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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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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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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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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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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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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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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.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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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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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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