The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
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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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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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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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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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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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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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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What I’d like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: “Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
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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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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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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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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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