All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
MAXIM GORKYEven a bad man is better than a good book.
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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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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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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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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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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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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Every new time will give its law.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
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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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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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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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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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