Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
MAXIM GORKYTruth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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Every new time will give its law.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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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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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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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.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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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.
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It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
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