An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
MAXIM GORKYOur most merciless enemy is our past.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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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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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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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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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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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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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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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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