Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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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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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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
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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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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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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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Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man – Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?
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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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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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The 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.
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Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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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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