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.
MAXIM GORKYThe revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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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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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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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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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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