Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man – Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?
MAXIM GORKYEverybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man – Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?
MAXIM GORKYAn artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.
MAXIM GORKYRemembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
MAXIM GORKYOnly mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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 GORKYIt is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
MAXIM GORKYWe ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
MAXIM GORKYAn honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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 everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
MAXIM GORKYThe revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
MAXIM GORKYYou can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
MAXIM GORKYHunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
MAXIM GORKYJust think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
MAXIM GORKYOur salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
MAXIM GORKY