Quotes by Maxim Gorky

Maxim Gorky was a prominent Russian writer and political activist (1868–1936). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times.

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  • Only mothers can think of the future, because they give birth to it in their children.
  • When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When is a duty, life is slavery.
  • “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.”
  • “Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.”
  • “When everything is easy, one quickly gets stupid.”
  • “Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.”
  • “You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.”
  • “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.”
  • “Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.”
  • “Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.”
  • “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!”
  • “You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.”
  • “One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .”
  • “The poor people are stupid from poverty, and the rich from greed.”
  • “Our existence has always and everywhere been tragic, but man has converted these numberless tragedies into works of art. I know of nothing more astonishing or more wonderful than this transformation.”

 

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