Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
MAXIM GORKYEvery new time will give its law.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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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 honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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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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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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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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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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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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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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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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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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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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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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When one loves somebody, everything is clear – where to go, what to do – it all takes care of itself and one doesn’t have to ask anybody about anything.
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