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?
MAXIM GORKYIn the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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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 the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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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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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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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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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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