Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
MAXIM GORKYA good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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Let 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.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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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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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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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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