Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
MAXIM GORKYWe 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.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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God 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.
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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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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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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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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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