Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
MAXIM GORKYTwo forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
MAXIM GORKYWith his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
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 GORKYAnger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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 GORKYProcessing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
MAXIM GORKYWe kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.
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 GORKYIn war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible — such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?
MAXIM GORKYEverywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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 GORKYIn the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
MAXIM GORKYWhen work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
MAXIM GORKYWhen one loves somebody, everything is clear – where to go, what to do – it all takes care of itself and one doesn’t have to ask anybody about anything.
MAXIM GORKYYou can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
MAXIM GORKY