Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
MAXIM GORKYGod is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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What I’d like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: “Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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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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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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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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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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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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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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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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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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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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