Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
MAXIM GORKYWriters build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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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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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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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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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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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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Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man – Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?
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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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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
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