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Maxim Gorky - The Lower Depths (1902)

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

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

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

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

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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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Maxim Gorky

Maxim Gorky
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Born: March 16, 1868
Died: June 18, 1936 (aged 68)
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