Even a bad man is better than a good book.
MAXIM GORKYSilence 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.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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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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All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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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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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
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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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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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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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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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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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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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