Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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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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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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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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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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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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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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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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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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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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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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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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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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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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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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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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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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
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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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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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