One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
MAXIM GORKYYou can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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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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Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
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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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Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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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!
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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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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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God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
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