In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
MAXIM GORKYIn the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
MAXIM GORKYTwo forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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 GORKYJust think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
MAXIM GORKYOur most merciless enemy is our past.
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 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 GORKYLies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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 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 GORKYA good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
MAXIM GORKYTruth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
MAXIM GORKYOnly mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
MAXIM GORKYThe higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.
MAXIM GORKYWhen the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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