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# You built no life: you have made a cesspit!
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/vy-ne-zhizn-stroili-vy-pomoinuiu-iamu-sdelali/
- Published: 2026-07-06T15:04:23.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:25:41.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Faith, Books

> You built no life: you have made a cesspit! You have bred filth and stuffiness by your deeds. Have you a conscience? Do you remember God? The five-kopeck piece is your god! And your conscience you have driven out... Bloodsuckers! You live on another's strength! How many people have wept blood over your great deeds?

“Foma Gordeyev”, Maxim Gorky. The young merchant Foma Gordeyev, of Old Believer stock, to his antagonist, the mouthpiece of new ideas, the Volga merchant Yakov Mayakin.