One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
MAXIM GORKYOur most merciless enemy is our past.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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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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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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Every new time will give its law.
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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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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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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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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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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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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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