The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
MAXIM GORKYWhat 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.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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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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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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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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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
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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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