An 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 GORKY FormSubjective
When 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 GORKY DayJump
Jail 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 GORKY
The 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 GORKY
What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it. MAXIM GORKY Oneself
Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers. MAXIM GORKY Oneself
It 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 GORKY Bush