Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
MAXIM GORKYProcessing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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 GORKYThe most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
MAXIM GORKYPolitics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
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 GORKYHappiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
MAXIM GORKYEven a bad man is better than a good book.
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 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 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 GORKYA good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
MAXIM GORKYWe ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
MAXIM GORKYYou must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
MAXIM GORKYJust think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
MAXIM GORKYTo an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
MAXIM GORKYAll human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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