An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.
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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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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 carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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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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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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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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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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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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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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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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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 can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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