One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
MAXIM GORKYOne word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
MAXIM GORKYWriters build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
MAXIM GORKYEverything which is good in me should be credited to books.
MAXIM GORKYThe 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.
MAXIM GORKYIn the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
MAXIM GORKYAnger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
MAXIM GORKYThe Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
MAXIM GORKYOnly mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
MAXIM GORKYWhen a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.
MAXIM GORKYThere is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
MAXIM GORKYWhen the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
MAXIM GORKYJail doesn’t teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!
MAXIM GORKYGod is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
MAXIM GORKYAll human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
MAXIM GORKYLies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
MAXIM GORKYTo an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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