Our most merciless enemy is our past.
MAXIM GORKYMany contemporary authors drink more than they write.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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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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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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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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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
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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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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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