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!
MAXIM GORKYWe kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
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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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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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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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When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.
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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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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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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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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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The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.
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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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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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