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Maxim Gorky, originally Pavlovich Vasiliyevich Korolenko, was a Russian writer known by his pen name. His works deeply revealed the sufferings of the lower classes and were hailed as masterpieces of Russian literature. His representative works include 'Childhood', 'On the Road', and 'My University'.

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Famous Maxim Gorky Quotes

“All that is called Destiny or Fate is none other than the result of our thoughtlessness and our mistrust of ourselves; we should know that all that is created on earth is created by its sole Master and Laborer -- Man.”

Knows Men Should Earth Results Destiny Fate Masters Sole Mistrust Laborers Thoughtlessness

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“Politics is the soil in which the nettle of poisonous enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, slander, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the individual grows rapidly and luxuriantly. Name anything bad in man and it is precisely in the soil of political struggle that it grows with particular liveliness and abundance.”

Men Political Lying Evil Politics Names Individual Grows Struggle Particular Ambition Soil Abundance Suspicion Disrespect Slander Poisonous Morbid Enmity Shameless Nettles Political Struggle

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“Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?”

Ifs Thinking Men Happens Truth Reader Mad Beast Sane

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“Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.”

Men Evidence Chaos Instability Devastation

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“To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.”

Men Warm Old Man Growing Old Homeland

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“A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.”

Men Stills Brain Stupid Be Good Good Man Bad Man

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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?”

Knows Men Want Can Do Born Justice Ethics My Friends Every Man Optimistic Fairness Something Better Considerate Be Considerate Considerate And Caring

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“An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.”

Knows Men Form Artist Know How Impression Objectives Subjective Convincing

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

Ifs Men Brain Honest Idiot Honest Man Crooks

Book:The Lower Depths

Source: The Lower Depths

“Even a bad man is better than a good book.”

Men Book Good Book Bad Man

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

Men Truth Lying Masters Truth Is Slave Free Man

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

Men Whole Praise One Word Odes

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“What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.”

Men Born Hats Saying Thank You

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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.”

People Ifs Men Soul Hard Natural Accepting Wake Up Deny Bitter Torture Misfortunes Trance Bitter Truth

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“Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.”

Men Art Two Book Force United Influence Library Librarian Art And Science

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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!”

Men Believe Teach Goodness Jail Believe In Me Another Man Siberia

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About the Author

Born: March 28, 1868
Died: June 18, 1936
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 88

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