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.
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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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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Every new time will give its law.
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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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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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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
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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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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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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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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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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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