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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.

Maxim Gorky

All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
MAXIM GORKY

Earth Heaven People Pilgrimage
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
Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
MAXIM GORKY

Energy Future Hope Kill Past Present Remember
Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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Born Children Future Mom Thinking
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
MAXIM GORKY

Freedom Lying Man Master Religion
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
Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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Art Cultivation Force Influence Man Science Success
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
Every new time will give its law.
MAXIM GORKY

Law One Liner Time
An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
MAXIM GORKY

Brain Honesty Idiot Man Right
Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
MAXIM GORKY

Devastation Evidence Man Root
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
Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty each and every one of us.
MAXIM GORKY

Bitter Guilty Oneself Search 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
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
MAXIM GORKY

Past Yourself
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
MAXIM GORKY

Age Count Marriage

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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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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