Maxim Gorky Quotes

 “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.”
― Maxim Gorky

“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, The Lower Depths and Other Plays

 

“Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.”
― Maxim Gorky

 

 

  

“When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.”
― Maxim Gorky

 

 

  

“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery!”
― Maxim Gorky

 

  

 

“You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.”
― Maxim Gorky

 

 

 

“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.”
― Maxim Gorky, Untimely Thoughts: Essays on Revolution, Culture, and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1918

 

   

“Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.”
― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths, And Other Plays

 

 

 

 

 

“Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future”
― Maxim Gorky, Twenty-Six Men and a Girl: And Other Storie

 

 

 

 

“You will not drown the truth in seas of blood”
― Maxim Gorky 

“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.”
― Maxim Gorky, Literary Portraits

 

 

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Maxim Gorky Quotes (Author of Mother)