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.
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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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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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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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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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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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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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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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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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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Every new time will give its law.
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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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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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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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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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