Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
MAXIM GORKYWhen 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.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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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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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Every new time will give its law.
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One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
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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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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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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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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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