A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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Every new time will give its law.
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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
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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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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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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 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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We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.
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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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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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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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Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
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