With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
MAXIM GORKYOne has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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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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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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God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Every new time will give its law.
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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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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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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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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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