You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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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Every new time will give its law.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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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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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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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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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 everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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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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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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