Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
MAXIM GORKYThe Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Every new time will give its law.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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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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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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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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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 honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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