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“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.”
― The Lower Depths and Other Plays
― 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.”
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“When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.”
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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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“Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.”
― Lower Depths and Other Plays
― Lower Depths and Other Plays
“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.”
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“You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.”
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“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.”
― Untimely Thoughts: Essays on Revolution, Culture, and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1918
― Untimely Thoughts: Essays on Revolution, Culture, and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1918
“إن الكنائس في المدن الكبيرة مليئة بالفضة والذهب اللذين لا حاجة لله بهما ، في حين يرتجف على ابواب الكنائس عدد لا يحصى من الفقراء ينتظرون بفارغ الصبر هبات نحيلة تُلقى في أيديهم المفتوحة.”
― Mother
― Mother
“Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future”
― Twenty-Six Men and a Girl and Other Stories
― Twenty-Six Men and a Girl and Other Stories
“Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.”
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“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!”
― Mother
― Mother
“لا يكفي أن تعرف, لابد أن تفهم”
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“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.”
― Literary Portraits
― Literary Portraits
“You will not drown the truth in seas of blood”
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“When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event...”
― My Childhood
― My Childhood
“One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .”
― Selected Short Stories
― Selected Short Stories
“تنمو الحقيقة عندما يروي دم الشرفاء الأرض كالمطر الغزير، أما دم الأعداء فلا يبدع شيئاً، إنه دم عاقر، فاسد يتبخر دون أن يترك أثراً”
― Mother
― Mother
“أنت تسكب روحك في الشئ الذي تفضله.”
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“In the monotony of everyday existence grief comes as a holiday, and a fire is an entertainment. A scratch embellishes an empty face.”
― My Childhood
― My Childhood
“Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.”
― Untimely Thoughts: Essays on Revolution, Culture, and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1918
― Untimely Thoughts: Essays on Revolution, Culture, and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1918
“نحن أبناء تلك الحياة المظلمة نحس كل شيء، لكنه يصعب علينا وضعه في كلمات فنخجل لكوننا نفهم لكن نعجز عن التعبير عما نفهم”
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“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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“اتعلمون ان هناك الكثير من الاحزان تنتظر البشر؟ ان دمعهم ما زال يمتص. ولكن ذلك كله، لكن حزني كله، و دمي ليس الا فدية تافهة لبعض ما احمل في صدري وراسي. اني غني بالشعاع كالنجم، و ساتحمل كل شيء، ساتحمله لان في داخلي فرحا لا يقوى انسان ما أو شيء ما على خنقه ابدا .. و في هذا الفرح تكمن القوة.”
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“كل امرئ يخشى ان يتلقى الضربة من جاره ، وهو من اجل ذلك، يتأهب لـسبقه اليها. هكذا هي الحياة ايتها الام الصغيرة.”
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“لقد افترس الجوع النفوس وصنع مخلوقات ليس لها وجه لإنسان.
إنهم لا يعيشون، إنهم يتعفنون في حضن بؤس لا نستطيع أن نتصوره، وتقيم السلطات حولهم نطاقاً من الحراسة اليقظة، تتربص بهم كالغربان لترى ان كنت تملك كسرة خبز زائدة . فاذا رأت تلك الكسرة انتزعتها منك ، ولطمتك ،فوق ذلك ، على فمك”
― Mother
إنهم لا يعيشون، إنهم يتعفنون في حضن بؤس لا نستطيع أن نتصوره، وتقيم السلطات حولهم نطاقاً من الحراسة اليقظة، تتربص بهم كالغربان لترى ان كنت تملك كسرة خبز زائدة . فاذا رأت تلك الكسرة انتزعتها منك ، ولطمتك ،فوق ذلك ، على فمك”
― Mother
“The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment.”
― Twenty-Six Men and a Girl and Other Stories
― Twenty-Six Men and a Girl and Other Stories