A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
MAXIM GORKYEverything which is good in me should be credited to books.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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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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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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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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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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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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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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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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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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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 word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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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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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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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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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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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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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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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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