Maxim Gorky Quotes
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood
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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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Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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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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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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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!
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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, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture.
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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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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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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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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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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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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With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that's your own is dearer than a brother.
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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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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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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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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt
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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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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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In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
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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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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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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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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 that this is also a truth.
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