Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
MAXIM GORKYMany contemporary authors drink more than they write.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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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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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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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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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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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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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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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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.
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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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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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