In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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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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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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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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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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 most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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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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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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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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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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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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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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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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Every new time will give its law.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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