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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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But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.
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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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There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - Swan Song is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my book will be incense burnt at the deathbed of this society, damned with the damnation of its own impotence.
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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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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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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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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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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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You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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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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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.
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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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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free 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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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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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future
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It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes. There are nightingales in every garden, but police spies only in mine, I think. They sit under my windows in the darkness of the night and try to get a glimpse of how I spread sedition in Russia.
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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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