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.
MAXIM GORKYThe good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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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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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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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 most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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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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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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