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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.

Maxim Gorky

Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
MAXIM GORKY

Man Reading Sanity Thinking Truth
Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
MAXIM GORKY

Energy Future Hope Kill Past Present Remember
Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
MAXIM GORKY

Book Learning Reading Remember Yourself
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Complex Feeling Form God Individual Link Organization Social
Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
MAXIM GORKY

Delight Ourselves Salvation Work
One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
MAXIM GORKY

Man Praise Whole Woman Word
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
When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
MAXIM GORKY

Boredom Event Grief Life Welcome
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
Our most merciless enemy is our past.
MAXIM GORKY

Enemy Mercy Ourselves Past
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
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
You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
MAXIM GORKY

Hide Meaning Philosophy Yourself
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!
MAXIM GORKY

Believe Goodness Man Myself Teaching
Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
MAXIM GORKY

Devastation Evidence Man Root
Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
MAXIM GORKY

Book Credit Goodness Myself

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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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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