Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
MAXIM GORKYTo an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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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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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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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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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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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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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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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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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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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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