Maxim Gorky Quotes

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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.
• Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.
• In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
• You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
• All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I've even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
• Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
• 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…
• Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
• Every new time will give its law.
• If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept,…
• 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…
• When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event...
• In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.
• 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,…
• Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.
• When one loves somebody, everything is clear - where to go, what to do - it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have…
• Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
• The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
• Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!
• Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.

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