Sergei Lukyanenko Quotes
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At home the very walls lend you strength.
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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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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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Ill-considered but well-intentioned actions do more good that actions that are well-considered but cruel.
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All we can do is try not to fall.
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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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But even if we were to disappear, people would still be divided into people and Others. No matter how those Others were different.People can't get by without Others. Put two people on an uninhabited island, and you'll have a human being and an Other. And the difference is that an Other is always tormented by his differentness. It's easier for people. They know they're people, and that's what they ought to be. And they all have no choice but to be that way. All of them, forever.
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Drink your coffee, it clears out the brain in the morning
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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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There are far more reasons for death than there are for life.
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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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Forgiving was the hardest thing. Sometimes forgiving was the hardest thing in the whole world.
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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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There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder!
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If it's possible to do something, sooner or later someone's going to do it.
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There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder! That's what you have to fight for. For people. Evil is a hydra with many heads, and the more of them you cut off, the more it grows! Hydras have to be starved to death, do you understand that? Kill a hundred Dark Ones, and a thousand more will take their place.
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Evil has no need to bother with eliminating Good. It's far simpler to let Good fight against itself.
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Because love stands above Darkness and Light.Because love is not sex or a shared faith, or "the joint maintenance of a household and the upbringing of children."Because love is also Power.And Light and Darkness, people and Others, morality and law, the Ten Commandments and the Great Treaty have damn all to do with it.
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The common good and the individual good rarely coincide.
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If you have love in you, it's a strength. But if you are in love, it's a weakness.
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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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How easily the truth is lost, and how persistent lies are.
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When there are strange things going on all around, every coincidence should be considered very carefully.
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It is boring to haunt a writer, and even more so to haunt a celebrity. I would haunt a literary figure! Possibly some superhero, maybe even James Bond. Constant adventures, fights, beautiful women--much more interesting that watching a writer who taps on computer all day long, or a celebrity posing in front of cameras.
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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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I suppose that literature as it is won't die, science fiction included. But games are becoming an extremely important part of the science fiction world, including games that are adapted from books (or vice versa: books that are adapted from games). It's wonderful to have the opportunity to play and see your favorite characters on the screen, but the opportunity to read a book does not become less attractive.
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Great knowledge brings great sorrow.
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An assassin can be found for every president. And 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. The time came when every book was cast into the fire, when every symphony was reduced to a popular tune and played in all the drinking dens. A sound philosophical basis could be set in place under any vile nonsense.
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Being on the side of the Light is much tougher than being on the side of the Dark.
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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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