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 GORKYJail doesn’t teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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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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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man – Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?
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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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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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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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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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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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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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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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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
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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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