Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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!
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.
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.
But I’m not to be caught with such poor bait! I’m a big fish, I am.
Every new time will give its law.
All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
When the life is monotonous, even grief is a welcome event...
All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
All that is called Destiny or Fate is none other than the result of our thoughtlessness and our mistrust of ourselves; we should know that all that is created on earth is created by its sole Master and Laborer – Man.
Our most merciless enemy is our past.
Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.
You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.