Gorky's famous saying is as follows:

Whoever can't love can't understand life. Physical pain is tolerable, but mental pain is even more tormenting. I began to realize that life is as painful as thinking about it.

people can't live without conscience, even if they have great intelligence. In the distance, the clouds on the grassland are pink, and the goddess of sunrise has opened the door, showing the beauty like proud as a peacock.

God never severely punishes people. Only the devil likes to hurt the innocent. The less things a person needs, the greater his happiness. The more wishes a person has, the less freedom he has.

The silence of the Volga River is boundless, giving people a feeling that it is not gloomy and terrible. The warm night on the river seems to stretch endlessly. The dark clouds are finally in out of the dark, and it is another bleak day when the fog is bright and the sun is dark. The scenery hidden in the darkness is faintly visible: the trees, farmhouses and farmers on the river bank form a dawn landscape.

Extended information: Gorky (March 28th, 1868—June 18th, 1936), formerly known as alexey Maximovich Beshkov, was a writer, poet, critic, political commentator and scholar in the former Soviet Union. His representative works include the prose poem Haiyan, the novel Childhood, the novella Confession, the prose The Melody of Spring, and the short story Celka Shi.

Gorky's early realistic works are mostly based on his experiences and feelings in riff-raff. His works are full of praise for positive attitude towards life, longing for arousing people's passion for creating a new life, arousing people's pride in themselves as human beings and despising pity and gifts.