My Apprenticeship Quotes

“قرأت كتبا رديئة لا تحصى، لكنها كانت نافعة، فالسيء في الحياة يجب أن يعرف كما الجيد، يجب معرفة الكثير قدر الإمكان، وبقدر ما تكون التجربة غنية، ومتعددة الجوانب، ترفع الإنسان، وتجعله واسع المدارك.”
― مكسيم غوركي, My Apprenticeship

“A belief which is based on force of habit is one of the saddest and most harmful phenomena of our time－as in the shade of a stone wall everything new grows slowly, becoming stunted, lacking the sap of life. There were too few rays of love in that faith, too many insults, too much animosity and too much envy, which always goes hand in hand with hate. And the light emanating from that faith was nothing but the phosphorescent glow of putrefaction.”
― Maxim Gorky, My Apprenticeship

“Why, you may ask, am I telling you all these abominations? So that you should know, my dear sirs, these are not things of the past — far from it! I know that you prefer beautifully told, fictitious horrors: the fantastic and the terrifying give you an agreeable thrill! But I know what is really terrifying, the horrors of everyday life, and I claim the indisputable right to shock you with stories about it, to make you take stock of your own lives and the world in which you live. We all live vile dirty lives — that's the point of these stories! I love people and I would not wish to horrify them. But I will not be sentimental nor conceal the terrible truth with the tinsel words of a beautiful lie. We must go forward with life! We must take from it into our hearts and heads everything that is good and humane so that it becomes a living part of us.”
― Maxim Gorky, My Apprenticeship

“Sau khi khoắng bùn lên, họ sục sạo trong chỗ bẩn thỉu ấy như những con lợn và rống lên vì thích thú được bôi nhọ, được chế giễu những điều đẹp đẽ nhưng quá xa xôi, khó hiểu và buồn cười đối với họ.”
― Maxim Gorky, My Apprenticeship