You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
MAXIM GORKYHappiness 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.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
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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 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.
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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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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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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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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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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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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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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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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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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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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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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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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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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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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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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