Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
MAXIM GORKYAnger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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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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With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
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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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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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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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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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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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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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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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