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Maxim Gorky Quotes: A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
         

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.


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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.



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.

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.



Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.



When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.



Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.



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.

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.



Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.



Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.



In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.



Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.





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Letting go of "stuff" allowed the world to collapse behind me as I moved, so I became nothing more or less than who I simply was: Me.

Letting go of "stuff" allowed the world to collapse behind me as I moved, so I became nothing more or less than who I simply was: Me.



The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.



I still listen to tracks sometimes and hear some of the harmonies and its just amazing.

I still listen to tracks sometimes and hear some of the harmonies and its just amazing.



Because it is senior year I have begun to see things as potential absences. The things I love will become the things I'll miss.

Because it is senior year I have begun to see things as potential absences. The things I love will become the things I'll miss.



An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise to the stimulus of sense and appetite.

An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise to the stimulus of sense and appetite.



It's hard to find actors that don't feel contemporary when you put them in a period piece.

It's hard to find actors that don't feel contemporary when you put them in a period piece.



Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.



The president hasn't come after me yet, but we've had other people come after me!

The president hasn't come after me yet, but we've had other people come after me!



I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks

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