One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
MAXIM GORKYIn 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?
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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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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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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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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The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
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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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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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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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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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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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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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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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