Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty each and every one of us.
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What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
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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.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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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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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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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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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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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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It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
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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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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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