Maxim Gorky

“The doleful, ugly sounds became entangled in his whiskers.”

“Todos os que têm uma vida difícil, que são esmagados pela miséria, privados de todos os direitos, submetidos aos ricos e lacaios destes, todos, todo o povo deve ir ao encontro dos homens que por ele morrem nas prisões, que são torturados e mortos. Eles apontam a todos, sem fazerem caso dos seus interesses pessoais, o caminho da felicidade, eles não procuram enganar os outros: dizem que é um caminho difícil e não arrastam ninguém à força, mas logo que estivermos com eles, não somos capazes de deixá-los mais, porque vemos que têm razão, que esse caminho é belo e que não há outro.”

“Chết là hết; sống phải đi.”

“once there was a crow, it flew from the field to the hill, from hedge to hedge, and lived its life. then it died and rotted away. -what's the sense in it? there just ISN'T any!”

“This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time!”

“When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event...”

“Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future”

“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.”

“The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment.”

“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.”

“If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture.”

“You will not drown the truth in seas of blood”

“تبدو السعادة دائما صغيرة عندما تمسكها بين يديك..لكنك اذا تركتها أدركت فورا كم كانت كبيرة وغالية..”

“Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.”

“The 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.”

“The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling, has a pretty good idea of the destructive effect of the disease on his constitution.This is a case in which knowledge brings death nearer.”

“Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.”

“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 work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery!”

“But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.”

“One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .”

“When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.”

“Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.”

“I do not care to see men better off – but better!”

“You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.”