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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.

Maxim Gorky

In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible — such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?
MAXIM GORKY

Avoid Children Cruelty Fight Necessary People War
Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
MAXIM GORKY

Avoid Carry Function Politics Public
Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
MAXIM GORKY

Class Force Growth Intellectual
You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
MAXIM GORKY

Blood Drown Sea Truth
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Better Born Live Man Thankful Yourself
What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
MAXIM GORKY

Dog Kill Master Oneself
All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
MAXIM GORKY

Human Rough Soul
Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
MAXIM GORKY

Energy Future Hope Kill Past Present Remember
Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
MAXIM GORKY

Art Cultivation Force Influence Man Science Success
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
MAXIM GORKY

Contemporary Drink Writing
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Artist Convince Form Impression Man Subjective
The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
MAXIM GORKY

Beautiful English Guilty Language Word
With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
MAXIM GORKY

Brother Himself Live Money Person
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Bitter Guilty Oneself Search Truth
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
MAXIM GORKY

Age Count Marriage
The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
MAXIM GORKY

Bitter Creature Human Hungry Life Taste

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