To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
MAXIM GORKYRemembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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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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