Every new time will give its law.
MAXIM GORKYIn the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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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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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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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 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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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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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 the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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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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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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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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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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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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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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An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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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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