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 GORKYThe 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.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
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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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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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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 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.
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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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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.
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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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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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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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