One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
MAXIM GORKYEvery new time will give its law.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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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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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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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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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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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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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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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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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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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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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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