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.
MAXIM GORKYProcessing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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 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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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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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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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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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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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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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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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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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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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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