Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
MAXIM GORKYKeep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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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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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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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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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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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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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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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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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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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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