Maxim Gorky Quotes
With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that's your own is dearer than a brother.
Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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.
The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
In 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?
What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it.
Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
Our existence has always and everywhere been tragic, but man has converted these numberless tragedies into works of art. I know of nothing more astonishing or more wonderful than this transformation.
In the monotony of everyday existence grief comes as a holiday, and a fire is an entertainment. A scratch embellishes an empty face.
All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I have even heard it said that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
Happiness 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.
When 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.