Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
MAXIM GORKYYou must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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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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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a 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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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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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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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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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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