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.
MAXIM GORKYTwo forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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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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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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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 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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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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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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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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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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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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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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