In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
MAXIM GORKYLies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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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.
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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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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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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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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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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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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!
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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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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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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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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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