All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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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Every new time will give its law.
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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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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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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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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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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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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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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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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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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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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.
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With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
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