Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
MAXIM GORKYMany contemporary authors drink more than they write.
MAXIM GORKYHunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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 GORKYOur most merciless enemy is our past.
MAXIM GORKYWith his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
MAXIM GORKYBe good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
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 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 GORKYEvery new time will give its law.
MAXIM GORKYSilence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.
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 GORKYEven a bad man is better than a good book.
MAXIM GORKYAll human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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 GORKYAnger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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.
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