Even a bad man is better than a good book.
MAXIM GORKYHunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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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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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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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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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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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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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
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Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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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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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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