Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
MAXIM GORKYA good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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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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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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What I’d like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: “Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
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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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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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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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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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Every new time will give its law.
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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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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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.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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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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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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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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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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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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