Maxim Gorky Quotes

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

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Humanity has no force more powerful and victorious than science.

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Science is humanity's superior reason, the sun which man has created of his own flesh and blood and has lit to illuminate the darkness of his hard life and to show the way to freedom, justice, and beauty.

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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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For us natural science is the Archimedes' screw that alone can turn the world to face the sun of reason.

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You can't drive anywhere in a carriage of the past!

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Science is becoming the nervous system of our time.

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An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.

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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.

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The proletarian state must bring up thousands of excellent 'mechanics of culture', 'engineers of the soul'.

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How marvelous is Man! How proud the word rings — Man!

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It 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.
On happiness

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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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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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The basic hero of our books should be labor; that is, man organized by the processes of labor.

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Lies—there you have the religion of slaves and taskmasters.

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This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time!

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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future

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If anyone want to become a socialist in a hurry, he should come to the United States.

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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.

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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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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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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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In time I came to understand that out of the misery and murk of their lives the Russian people had learned to make sorrow a diversion, to play with it like a child's toy; seldom are they diffident about showing their happiness. And so, through their tedious weekdays, they made a carnival of grief; a fire is entertainment; and on a vacant face a bruise becomes an adornment.

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There's a little book I'm thinking of writing — "Swan Song" is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my book will be incense burnt at the deathbed of this society, damned with the damnation of its own impotence.

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