When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.
MAXIM GORKYKeep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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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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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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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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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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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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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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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.
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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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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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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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Every new time will give its law.
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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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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
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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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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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