Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
MAXIM GORKYOur salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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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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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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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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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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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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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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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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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty each and every one of us.
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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