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.
MAXIM GORKYWhat can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
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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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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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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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It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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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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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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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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