What I’d like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: “Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
MAXIM GORKYWhat I’d like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: “Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
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 GORKYTruth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
MAXIM GORKYAll of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
MAXIM GORKYYou can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
MAXIM GORKYYou must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
MAXIM GORKYAnger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
MAXIM GORKYIn the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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 GORKYWhen everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
MAXIM GORKYWriters build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
MAXIM GORKYOne has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
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 GORKYThe more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
MAXIM GORKYIntellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
MAXIM GORKYEvery new time will give its law.
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