Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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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Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty each and every one of us.
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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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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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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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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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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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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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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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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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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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