Maxim Gorky Quotes

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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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  People, Deeds, Bullets

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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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  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

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• Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

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  Kindness, Love You, Done

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• When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

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  Stupid, Easy

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• Politics is the soil in which the nettle of poisonous enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, slander, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the individual grows rapidly and luxuriantly. Name anything bad in man and it is precisely in the soil of political struggle that it grows with particular liveliness and abundance.

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  Lying, Struggle, Ambition

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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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  Life, Success, Work

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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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  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

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  Mothers Day, Mom, Baby

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• Our most merciless enemy is our past.

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  Past, Enemy, Our Past

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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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  Art, Book, Men

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• Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future

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  Past, Remembrance, Energy

  Maxim Gorky (2016). “Creatures That Once Were Men”, p.39, The Floating Press

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• A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

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  Stupid, Men, Good Man

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• Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.

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  Truth, Lying, Men

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• This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time!

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  Long, People, Ruins

  Maxim Gorky (2015). “Mother”, p.20, Booklassic

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• In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

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  Past, Curiosity, Mindfulness

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• We ever long for visions of beauty,
  We ever dream of unknown worlds.

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  Dream, Unknown Worlds, Long

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• Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

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  Truth, Soul, Heal

  Maxim Gorky (2016). “The Lower Depths”, p.55, Courier Dover Publications

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• When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.

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  Grief, Events, Welcome

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• To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.

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  Art, Truth, Class

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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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  Wedding, Winter, Jumping

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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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  Believe, Goal, Ability

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• The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.

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  Beautiful, Money, Business

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• Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.

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  Air, Castles, Inns

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• Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.

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  Simple, Silence, Speak

  Maxim Gorky (2016). “Twenty-Six and One: And Other Stories”, p.10, The Floating Press

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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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  People, Heaven, World

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