To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
MAXIM GORKYWhen 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.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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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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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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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 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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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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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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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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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.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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