Our most merciless enemy is our past.
MAXIM GORKYMany contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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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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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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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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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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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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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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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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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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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Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty each and every one of us.
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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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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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