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.
MAXIM GORKYEverybody, 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?
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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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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With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
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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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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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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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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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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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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
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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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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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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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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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