Maxim Gorky Quotes - Page 2

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• Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.

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  Air, Castles, Inns

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• Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

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  Optimistic, Men, Justice

  "The Lower Depths". Play by Maxim Gorky, 1902.

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• You will not drown the truth in seas of blood

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  Blood, Sea

  Maxim Gorky (2015). “Mother”, p.411, Booklassic

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• One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .

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  Men, Odes, Praise

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• Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.

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  Done, Hunger, Said

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• The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling, has a pretty good idea of the destructive effect of the disease on his constitution.This is a case in which knowledge brings death nearer.

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  Doctors, Ideas, Feelings

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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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  People, Heaven, World

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• The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment.

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  Morning, Children, Dirty

  Maxim Gorky (2017). “The Maxim Gorky MEGAPACK®: 61 Classic Novels and Stories”, p.26, Wildside Press LLC

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• You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

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  Philosophy, Hidden Meaning, Knows

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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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  Simple, Silence, Speak

  Maxim Gorky (2016). “Twenty-Six and One: And Other Stories”, p.10, The Floating Press

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• If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture.

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  Men, People, 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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  Sweet, Bitter, Hunger

  Maxim Gorky (2017). “The Maxim Gorky MEGAPACK®: 61 Classic Novels and Stories”, p.1342, Wildside Press LLC

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• Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.

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  Differences, Political, Function

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• Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.

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  Work, Delight, Salvation

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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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  Believe, Men, Jail

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• All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.

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  Soul, Want, Littles

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• The intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy fabric besmeared with the blood of toiling masses.

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Blood

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• With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that's your own is dearer than a brother.

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  Money, Brother, Likes

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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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  Mean, Skins, Disease

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• Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.

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  Book, Reading, Should

  "Reading is overrated" by Rick Gekoski, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2011.

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• Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt

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  Ice

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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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  Guilt, Bitter, Speak

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• You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.

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  Children, Writing, Adults

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• Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.

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  Needs, Genius, Actors

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• One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

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  Girl, Math, Science

  "The Zykovs". Book by Maxim Gorky, 1914.

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