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.
MAXIM GORKYTo an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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When one loves somebody, everything is clear – where to go, what to do – it all takes care of itself and one doesn’t have to ask anybody about anything.
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Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty each and every one of us.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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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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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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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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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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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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