Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
MAXIM GORKYJust think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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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?
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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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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
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All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man – Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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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.
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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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