One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
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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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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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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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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When one loves somebody, everything is clear – where to go, what to do – it all takes care of itself and one doesn’t have to ask anybody about anything.
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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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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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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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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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