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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.

Maxim Gorky

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

Energy Future Hope Kill Past Present Remember
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Care Love Oneself
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
Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
MAXIM GORKY

Healing Soul Truth Wound
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
All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
MAXIM GORKY

Human Rough Soul
Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
MAXIM GORKY

Act Hungry Satisfaction
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
MAXIM GORKY

Past Yourself
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

Art Goodness Quality Soul Success
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 GORKY

Artist Convince Form Impression Man Subjective
In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
MAXIM GORKY

Carriage Past Yourself
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
Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
MAXIM GORKY

Castle Live Publish Reading Rent Writing
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
Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
MAXIM GORKY

Angry One Liner Quick
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

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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