An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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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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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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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Happiness 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.
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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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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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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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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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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
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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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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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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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