Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
MAXIM GORKYJail doesn’t teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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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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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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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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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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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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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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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Every new time will give its law.
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