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.
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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The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
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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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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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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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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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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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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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Every new time will give its law.
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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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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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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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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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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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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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