Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
MAXIM GORKYProcessing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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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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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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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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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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With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
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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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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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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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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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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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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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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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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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