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Maxim Gorky Inspirational Quotes (45)

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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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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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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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All that is called Destiny or Fate is none other than the result of our thoughtlessness and our mistrust of ourselves we should know that all that is created on earth is created by its sole Master and Laborer -- Man.
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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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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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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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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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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.
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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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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.
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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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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood
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There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
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But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.
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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a 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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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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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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