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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Maxim Gorky

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
We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
MAXIM GORKY

Beautiful Dreams Unknown Vision World
Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
MAXIM GORKY

Book Learning Reading Remember Yourself
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
You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
MAXIM GORKY

Hide Meaning Philosophy Yourself
Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
MAXIM GORKY

Book Credit Goodness Myself
To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
MAXIM GORKY

Home Land Man Old Place Warm
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
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
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
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
MAXIM GORKY

Bad Brain Goodness Head Man Stupidity
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
MAXIM GORKY

Past Yourself
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
Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
MAXIM GORKY

Delight Ourselves Salvation Work
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
Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
MAXIM GORKY

Human Material Natural Process

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