Our most merciless enemy is our past.
MAXIM GORKYOur salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
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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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Every new time will give its law.
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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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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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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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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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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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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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