Quote by Maxim Gorky

"When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and dead, it becomes brittle and easily snapped. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliability and weakness are expressions of freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win."

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Novelist Playwright Russian 1868–1936

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