One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
MAXIM GORKYTruth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Every new time will give its law.
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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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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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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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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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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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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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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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What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
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Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
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