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 GORKYThe 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.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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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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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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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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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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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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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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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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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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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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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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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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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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Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man – Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?
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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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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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