Every new time will give its law.
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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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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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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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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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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What I’d like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: “Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
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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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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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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.
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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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The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.
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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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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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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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