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Quotes
“The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.”
“Can a man who's warm understand one who's freezing?”
“You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.”
“In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.”
“Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip.”
“A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste”
“Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society, that dares not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers, such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a facade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as waste paper instead of being read.
-Letter to the Fourth National Congress of Soviet Writers”
“Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality; when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eyewash.”
“Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.”
“That bowl of soup—it was dearer than freedom, dearer than life itself, past, present, and future.”
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