There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
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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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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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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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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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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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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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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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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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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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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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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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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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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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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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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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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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
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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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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 most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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