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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains. — Maxim Gorky

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book. — Maxim Gorky

With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that's your own is dearer than a brother. — Maxim Gorky

Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future — Maxim Gorky

The poor people are stupid from poverty, and the rich from greed. — Maxim Gorky

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty. — Maxim Gorky

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children. — Maxim Gorky

Our most merciless enemy is our past. — Maxim Gorky

There 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 Gorky

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 eyes of the Armenians speak long before the lips move and long after they cease to. — Arshile Gorky

An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot ... but a crook must have brains. — Maxim Gorky

Jazz may be a thrilling communion with the primitive soul; or it may be an ear-splitting bore. — Maxim Gorky

And he's direct, clear, firm, like truth itself. — Maxim Gorky

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery! — Maxim Gorky

To an old man any place that's warm is homeland. — Maxim Gorky

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. — Maxim Gorky

When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event ... — Maxim Gorky

You will not drown the truth in seas of blood — Maxim Gorky

Art must always remain earnest ... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one. — Arshile Gorky

in music one can hear everything. — Maxim Gorky

Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt — Maxim Gorky

The number of books increased on the shelves neatly made for him by one of his carpenter friends. The room began to look like a home. — Maxim Gorky

The doleful, ugly sounds became entangled in his whiskers. — Maxim Gorky

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong. — Maxim Gorky

You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I am completely exhausted. — Arshile Gorky

Even a bad man is better than a good book. — Maxim Gorky

Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout. — Maxim Gorky

Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber. — Maxim Gorky

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

If Picasso drips, I drip ... For a long while I was with Cezanne, and now I am with Picasso. — Arshile Gorky

The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism. — Maxim Gorky

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul. — Maxim Gorky

In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere. — Maxim Gorky

One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . — Maxim Gorky

For sadness and gladness live within us side by side, almost inseparable; the one succeeding the other with an elusive, unappreciable swiftness. — Maxim Gorky

The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depths. — Peter Ackroyd

However low he may fall, a man can never deny himself the delight of feeling cleverer, more powerful or even better fed than his companions. — Maxim Gorky

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

All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up. — Maxim Gorky

Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty ... each and every one of us. — Maxim Gorky

Every new time will give its law. — Maxim Gorky

Movement is the translation of life, and if art depicts life, movement should come into art, since we are only aware of living because it moves. — Arshile Gorky

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint. — Arshile Gorky

All parents wash away their sins with their tears; you are not the only one. — Maxim Gorky

Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man? — Maxim Gorky

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere. — Maxim Gorky

All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I have even heard it said that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens. — Maxim Gorky

You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better. — Maxim Gorky

You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better. — Maxim Gorky

I communicate my innermost perceptions through art. — Arshile Gorky

Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush. — Arshile Gorky

Keep reading books, but remember that a book's only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself. — Maxim Gorky

What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better. — Maxim Gorky

We ever long for visions of beauty,
We ever dream of unknown worlds. — Maxim Gorky

When a person expends the least possible amount of energy on a certain act, that is grace. — Anton Chekhov

Was it Gorky who said: If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered in vain, indeed you have lived in vain. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In the monotony of everyday existence grief comes as a holiday, and a fire is an entertainment. A scratch embellishes an empty face. — 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

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid. — Maxim Gorky

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write. — Maxim Gorky

The indifferent pendulum of the clock kept chopping off the seconds of life, calmly and precisely. — Maxim Gorky

But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am. — Maxim Gorky

Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger. — Maxim Gorky

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know. — Maxim Gorky

The pleasure of living carries with it the obligation to die. — Maxim Gorky

Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers. — 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

Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work. — Maxim Gorky

I seek a form of language which will express my ideas for our time. — Arshile Gorky

I do not paint in front of but from within nature. — Arshile Gorky

Everything which is good in me should be credited to books. — Maxim Gorky

God created man in his own image and after his own likeness. Therefore he is like man if man is like him. — Maxim Gorky

Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man. — Maxim Gorky

Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent. — Maxim Gorky