The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
MAXIM GORKYIt is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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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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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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Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.
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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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God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
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All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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