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.
MAXIM GORKYLet us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty each and every one of us.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
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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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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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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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God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
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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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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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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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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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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