To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
MAXIM GORKYAll of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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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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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 most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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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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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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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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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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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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