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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
Maxim Gorky
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Maxim Gorky
Age: 68 †
Born: 1868
Born: March 14
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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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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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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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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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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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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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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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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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future
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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 has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.
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In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.
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What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it.
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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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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .
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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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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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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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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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