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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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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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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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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.
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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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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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To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.
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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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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future
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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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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood
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When one loves somebody, everything is clear - where to go, what to do - it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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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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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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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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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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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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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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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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