Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
MAXIM GORKYOnly mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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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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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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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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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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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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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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We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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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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