Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
MAXIM GORKYWriters build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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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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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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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 more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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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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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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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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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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