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.
MAXIM GORKYWhat can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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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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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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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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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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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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