To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
MAXIM GORKYIt is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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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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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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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
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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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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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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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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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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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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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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An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.
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