"Anton Chekhov: Fragments of Recollections" by Maxim Gorky"

“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.”

“If anyone want to become a socialist in a hurry, he should come to the United States.”

“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.”

“One has to be able to count, if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.”

“Gorky Archive at Marxists.org”

“Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want respect for every man — who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?”