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 GORKYEverywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man – Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?
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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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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.
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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 honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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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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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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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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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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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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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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