Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
MAXIM GORKYMany contemporary authors drink more than they write.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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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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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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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 more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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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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Every new time will give its law.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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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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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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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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What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
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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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