„Kochajcie pracę! Żadna siła nie czyni człowieka ani wielkim, ani mądrym tak, jak czyni to właśnie praca.“
Źródło: Nic, co ludzkie… Aforyzmy, sentencje i przysłowia, oprac. Henryk Jurand, LSW, 1982, s. 64.
Maksim Gorki cytaty
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Maksim Gorki
Data urodzenia: 16. Marzec 1868
Data zgonu: 18. Czerwiec 1936
Maksim Gorki, ros. Максим Горький; właściwie Aleksiej Maksimowicz Pieszkow, ros. Алексей Максимович Пешков – rosyjski pisarz i publicysta. Wybitna postać rosyjskiego modernizmu okresu srebrnego wieku. Uważany za inicjatora socrealizmu w literaturze. Pierwszy przewodniczący Związku Pisarzy ZSRR w latach 1934–1936. Wikipedia
Fotografia: Unknown author / Public domain
Cytaty Maksim Gorki
„Byli ludzie.“
Bywszyje ludi. (ros.)
Znaczenie: lumpenproletariat.
Źródło: tytuł opowiadania z 1897
„Eksterminujcie wszystkich homoseksualistów, a faszyzm zniknie.“
Źródło: Proletariacki humanizm, cyt. za: Slavoj Žižek, Rewolucja u bram, s. 439.
„Dziwacy upiększają [zdobią] świat.“
Czudaki ukraszajut mir. (ros.)
Źródło: Opowieść o nieodwzajemnionej miłości (1923)
„Człowiek – to brzmi dumnie.“
Czełowiek – eto zwuczit gordo. (ros.)
słowa Satina.
Źródło: Na dnie (1902), akt 4
„Bóg stworzył człowieka na obraz i podobieństwo swoje. A do czego podobny jest pijak?“
Źródło: Księga toastów i humoru biesiadnego, wybór i oprac. Leszek Bubel, wyd. Zamek, Warszawa 1995, s. 150.
„Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.“
Untimely Thoughts (1917-18) (original: Наиболее успешно и могуче будит в нашей душе ее добрые начала сила искусства. Как наука является разумом мира, так искусство — сердце его.)
Kontekst: 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.
„There — you say — truth! Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.“
The character "Luka" in The Lower Depths (1902) English translation by Laurence Irving (1912)
Kontekst: There — you say — truth! Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul. For instance, I knew of a man who believed in a land of righteousness. He said: "Somewhere on this earth there must be a righteous land — and wonderful people live there — good people! They respect each other, help each other, and everything is peaceful and good!" And so that man — who was always searching for this land of righteousness — he was poor and lived miserably — and when things got to be so bad with him that it seemed there was nothing else for him to do except lie down and die — even then he never lost heart — but he'd just smile and say: "Never mind! I can stand it! A little while longer — and I'll have done with this life — and I'll go in search of the righteous land!" — it was his one happiness — the thought of that land. And then to this place — in Siberia, by the way — there came a convict — a learned man with books and maps — yes, a learned man who knew all sorts of things — and the other man said to him: "Do me a favor — show me where is the land of righteousness and how I can get there." At once the learned man opened his books, spread out his maps, and looked and looked and he said — no — he couldn't find this land anywhere... everything was correct — all the lands on earth were marked — but not this land of righteousness. The man wouldn't believe it.... "It must exist," he said, "look carefully. Otherwise," he says, "your books and maps are of no use if there's no land of righteousness." The learned man was offended. "My plans," he said, "are correct. But there exists no land of righteousness anywhere." Well, then the other man got angry. He'd lived and lived and suffered and suffered, and had believed all the time in the existence of this land — and now, according to the plans, it didn't exist at all. He felt robbed! And he said to the learned man: "Ah — you scum of the earth! You're not a learned man at all — but just a damned cheat!" — and he gave him a good wallop in the eye — then another one... [After a moment's silence. ] And then he went home and hanged himself.
