Top 88 Sergei Lukyanenko Quotes
#1. The Crown of All Things is here concealed. Only one step is left. But this is a legacy for the strong or the wise - Foma
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#2. That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy gestures.
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#3. Maybe it was cold and miserable in the forest, but man can bring his own warmth and comfort anywhere he goes.
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#4. And that, Pavel, is why you shouldn't use magic for every tiny little thing. Where you can put your trust in science, that's what you should do.
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#5. Because love is also a power. A great power, and it should not be disdained.
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#6. But I'm quite sure of one thing: If it's possible to do something, sooner or later someone's going to do it.
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#7. What kind of monster are you anyway? You should be more humane, Gennady!"
"I was humane when I was alive," said the vampire.
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#8. For every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres.
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#9. What if every time you fought for love, you were fighting for the whole world? For the whole world - not against the whole world.
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#10. Others are not born bad or good ... and neither are people, by the way.
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#11. Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept it now, despite all the times I've seen it proved right.
"The common good and the individual good rarely coincide ... "
Sure, I know, it's true.
But some truths are probably worse than lies.
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#12. In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive. And we
have no right to do that - we never have had, not since the creation of the world.
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#13. To kill the enemy is valorous. To condemn him to torment is infamous. To condemn him to eternal torment is eternal infamy.
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#16. The only thing that restrains you is fear, Anton Gorodetsky. For yourself, or for people - that's not important. But we are restrained by horror. And that is why we observe the Treaty.
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#17. A writer who wants to be translated and published abroad faces a very difficult challenge: first of all, he must make sure that his book is cosmopolitan in the best sense of the word, that it is interesting to a global audience. Nobody is going to read about problems that they don't care about.
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#18. The hiding place is believed to contain the Crown of All Things," said Lermont. "Sounds tempting, doesn't it? But somehow I think that the Crown of All Things is really the End of All Things." Semyon
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#19. He looked just perfect to play Dorian Gray in a film version of Oscar Wilde's novel. Young, graceful, and indecently fresh and handsome, he could easily have worn a badge that said READY FOR DEBAUCHERY!
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#20. I can't see the line between deliberate intention and coincidence.
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#21. The hardest thing of all is when pain is hidden behind a mask of calm.
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#22. Love was something different. Love was pure delight, a fountain of emotions, sensual delights, and enjoying spending time together.
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#23. When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who should be blamed.
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#24. A car's not the right place for showing off to a girl - the bed's the place for that. The consequences of a mistake there are more upsetting, but less tragic.
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#25. Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.
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#27. What was my truth worth, if I was prepared to defend the entire world, but not those who were close to me? If I subdued hate, but wouldn't give love a chance?
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#28. Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever. Even though every time it turns out to be a lie, it's only faith that gives love its strength and its joy.
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#31. That's the hardest thing of all
never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.
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#33. One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I wish you luck.
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#34. Above all, translators must be native speakers. It's not because they speak the language better
I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn a language better than native speakers. It has more to do with having an intimate knowledge of the society for which the book is being translated.
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#35. Forgiving was the hardest thing. Sometimes forgiving was the hardest thing in the whole world.
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#36. Of course we got drunk!" Semyon said. "It's okay to get drunk, Anton. If you need to real bad. Only you have to get drunk on vodka. Cognac and wine - that's all for the heart."
"So what's vodka for?"
"For the soul. If it's hurting real bad
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#37. Generally speaking, we can and should say everything. We just have to choose the right time, otherwise the truth can be worse than a lie.
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#38. But usually the attempt to defeat evil engenders more evil. I advise you to do good; that is the only way to win the victory!" Alisher
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#39. Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition.
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#41. Fuck your fucking mother!' Gesar howled, twisting the wheel round. In a moment of genuine terror only the Russian language could convey the true depths of his feelings. It made me feel proud of our great Russian culture!
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#42. You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship.
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#44. Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villainy. You can't push anybody into the mud; people always step into it themselves.
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#45. She had never liked people who spoke too familiarly upon first meeting. There ought to be a little bit more formality.
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#46. Ill-considered but well-intentioned actions do more good that actions that are well-considered but cruel.
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#47. Evil has no need to bother with eliminating Good. It's far simpler to let Good fight against itself.
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#48. Haggis is a brand of nappies.' I said. 'They're good, we used them for our daughter.'
'Haggis is a kind of food too,' said Semyon, shaking his head. 'Although as far as taste goes, there's probably not much difference.
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#49. You're on your own little quest, an there's a bit of Frodo Baggins in you, and a bit of Verne's Paganel, and just a tiny drop of Robinson Cursoe, and a smidgeon of Radishchev.
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#50. If you have love in you, it's a strength. But if you are in love, it's a weakness.
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#51. There is very much in the world that is bad. But usually the attempt to defeat evil engenders more evil. I advise you to do good; that is the only way to win the victory!
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#52. I'd stopped giving a damn about the human world a long time ago. It's our basis. Our cradle. But we are Others. We walk through closed doors and we maintain the balance of Good and Evil. There are pitifully few of us, and we can't reproduce - it
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#53. What an unfortunate instrument the guitar is! An instrument of such great nobility, a genuine monarch of music
reduced to a pitiful lump of wood with six strings, constantly abused by people with no ear and no voice.
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#54. If they do anything to me, just skin them alive, sweetheart," I said.
"I'll do more than that
I'll make them eat their own skins.
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#56. I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay.
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#57. After all, inside every woman, no matter how grown up she is, there is still a frightened little girl.
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#60. Isn't that always the way! Just when you really want to know if you did the right thing or not. But no one will ever answer that question for you.
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#61. Why was is that the Light acted through lies, and the Darkness acted though the truth? Why was is that our truth proved powerless, but lies were effective? And why was the Darkness able to manage perfectly well with truth in order to do Evil?
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#62. Would any grown girl in Russia be frightened by a "room of horror"? Westerner's lives are too calm and peaceful, is makes them afraid of all sorts of nonsense ...
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#63. An introverted, bookish child, with a mass of complexes and her head full of crazy ideals and a childish faith in the beautiful prince who was searching for and would surely find her.
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#64. He enjoyed life for its own sake, not for material possessions. Life was the exact opposite of money, which in itself meant nothing.
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#65. The sky's not for us.
We weren't meant to fly. All we can do is try not to fall.
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#66. If age teaches you anything, then one of its lessons is certainly not to hurry if you're already late ...
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#67. This is the inevitable consequence of a popular movie: you become the guy who wrote "the book that inspired the movie." Frankly speaking, I find it a bit insulting.
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#68. When there are strange things going on all around, every coincidence should be considered very carefully.
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#69. When people love each other, when they find each other out of thousands and millions of people. It's always destiny.
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#70. I'm sorry," I said. I felt unbearably ashamed. "I'm sorry." "What for?" "For being a blind, self-satisfied ass. For not seeing . . .
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#71. When people got old, why did they always develop a passion for scrabbling in the earth? Were they trying to get used to it?
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#72. Being on the side of the Light is much tougher than being on the side of the Dark ...
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#74. [after guard dogs frozen mid-attack] 'How long are the dogs going to stay hanging there like that?' ask Yulia. 'I want to make friends with them. Otherwise, i'll be left with a latent psychological complex that's bound to affect my personality and sexual preferences.
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#75. If we do any deed that is unconditionally good, it gives the Dark Magicians the right to do an evil deed.
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#76. That's the way it goes sometimes: in order to help your friends, first you have to help your enemy. Better get used to it.
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#77. Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you
these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.
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#78. And the simple people are trash. A herd of sheep that are good for shearing, but sometimes it's more profitable to slaughter them.
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#79. When we acknowledge that human beings have the right to choose, we deprive ourselves of it,
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#80. We're not given the chance to choose absolute truth. Truth's always two-faced. The only thing we have is the right to reject the lie we find most repugnant.
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#81. As she conceived it, tea had to be as black as tar and as strong as a sinner's conscience. Or the other way around. As black as that conscience and as strong as tar. And sweet.
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#82. Czech beer in bottles is the corpse of real beer in a glass coffin.
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#83. Until you become wiser, you won't become more powerful. Until you become more powerful you won't master higher magic. Until you master higher magic, you won't go into places that are dangerous. Your situation is unique. You were affected by" - he frowned - "the
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#85. It's about waking up in the morning with everything around you looking gray. Gray sky, gray sun, gray city, gray people, gray thoughts. And the only way out is to have another drink. Then you feel better. Then the colors come back.
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#87. I had never felt such happiness, not with one man or two or three, never felt this feeling before ... this feeling of ... completeness? Yes, that was it, completeness! I simply didn't need anyone else.
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#88. Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.
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