Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
MAXIM GORKYWhen everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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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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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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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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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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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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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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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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 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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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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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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