"To speak the truth is the most difficult……" — Maxim Gorky
"To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him."
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51 Quotes by Maxim Gorky
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All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I've even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim…
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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Every new time will give its law.
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