Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
MAXIM GORKYWhat 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.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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 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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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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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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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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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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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.
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What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
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Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
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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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