Maxim Gorky Quotes

There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - 'Swan Song' is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my book will be incense burnt at the deathbed of this society, damned with the damnation of its own impotence.

Maxim Gorky

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• Writing
• Book
• Song
• Society
• Dying

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• There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - 'Swan Song' is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my book will be incense burnt at the deathbed of this society, damned with the damnation of its own impotence.

  

  Maxim Gorky
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Book