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.
MAXIM GORKYOur salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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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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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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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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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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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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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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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We 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.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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