Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
MAXIM GORKYThe most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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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With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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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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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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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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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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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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One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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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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