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 GORKYHappiness 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.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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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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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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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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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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