Maxim Gorky Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.”
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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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“Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.”
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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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“In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.”
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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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“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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“The intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy fabric besmeared with the blood of toiling masses.”
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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 will not drown the truth in seas of blood”
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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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“Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.”
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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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“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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“Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.”
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“You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.”
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“When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.”
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“The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.”
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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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“Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?”
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“Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.”
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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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“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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“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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“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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“Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty ... each and every one of us.”
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“Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.”
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