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

Maxim Gorky

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
The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.
MAXIM GORKY

Goal Myself Person Pursue Society Truth
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
Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
MAXIM GORKY

Avoid Carry Function Politics Public
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
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
You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
MAXIM GORKY

Better Children Way Writing
Every new time will give its law.
MAXIM GORKY

Law One Liner Time
Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
MAXIM GORKY

Devastation Evidence Man Root
Our most merciless enemy is our past.
MAXIM GORKY

Enemy Mercy Ourselves Past
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
MAXIM GORKY

Contemporary Drink Writing
When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
MAXIM GORKY

Easy Oneself Quick Stupidity
Even a bad man is better than a good book.
MAXIM GORKY

Bad Better Book Goodness Man
When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.
MAXIM GORKY

Day Jump Marriage Remember Woman Yourself
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
MAXIM GORKY

Past Yourself

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

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