Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
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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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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 the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
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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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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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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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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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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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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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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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