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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.

Maxim Gorky

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
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
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
Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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Enemy Mercy Ourselves Past
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
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
Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
MAXIM GORKY

Energy Future Hope Kill Past Present Remember
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
The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
MAXIM GORKY

Beautiful English Guilty Language Word
What I’d like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: “Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
MAXIM GORKY

Better Born Live Man Thankful Yourself
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
Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
MAXIM GORKY

Angry One Liner Quick
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
MAXIM GORKY

Big Hands Happiness Hold Precious Small
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Law Legal Muscle Training Walk
Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
MAXIM GORKY

Castle Live Publish Reading Rent Writing
Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
MAXIM GORKY

Book Credit Goodness Myself

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