Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
MAXIM GORKYRemembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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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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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
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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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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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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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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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Every new time will give its law.
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