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Maxim Gorky

Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Delight Ourselves Salvation Work
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Acceptance Disgusting Earth Himself Misery
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Care Love Oneself
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Goal Myself Person Pursue Society 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
When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
MAXIM GORKY

Boredom Event Grief Life Welcome
You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
MAXIM GORKY

Hide Meaning Philosophy Yourself
The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
MAXIM GORKY

Law Legal Muscle Training Walk
Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
MAXIM GORKY

Actor Faith Need Oneself Power Talent
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
MAXIM GORKY

Contemporary Drink Writing
Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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Healing Soul Truth Wound
Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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Angry One Liner Quick
You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
MAXIM GORKY

Better Children Way Writing
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Past Yourself
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
It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
MAXIM GORKY

Bush Garden Goodness Peace Quiet
You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
MAXIM GORKY

Blood Drown Sea Truth
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Easy Silence Simplicity Talk Terrible
To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
MAXIM GORKY

Home Land Man Old Place Warm
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
MAXIM GORKY

Freedom Lying Man Master Religion
Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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Enemy Mercy Ourselves Past
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Big Hands Happiness Hold Precious Small
The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
MAXIM GORKY

Drive Organism Revolution Skin
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
Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
MAXIM GORKY

Book Credit Goodness Myself
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Action Feeling Grave Kill Myself Word
Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
MAXIM GORKY

Human Material Natural Process

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