Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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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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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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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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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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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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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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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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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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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