The common good and the individual good rarely coincide. Sergei Lukyanenko More Quotes by Sergei Lukyanenko More Quotes From Sergei Lukyanenko 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. Sergei Lukyanenko guitar voice people 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? Sergei Lukyanenko hate giving world 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 Sergei Lukyanenko real hurt heart 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. Sergei Lukyanenko luck wish time 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. Sergei Lukyanenko crazy beautiful children 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. Sergei Lukyanenko order enemy way 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. Sergei Lukyanenko common lying years 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. Sergei Lukyanenko love-is believe lying If age teaches you anything, then one of its lessons is certainly not to hurry if you're already late. Sergei Lukyanenko late lessons age The hardest thing of all is when pain is hidden behind a mask of calm. Sergei Lukyanenko mask calm pain 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. Sergei Lukyanenko car girl mistake I believe it, she's a very good person, kind. There's weariness there, but no bitterness or spite. When you're with a girl like that you feel like a different person. You try to be better, and that's a strain. Men prefer to be friends with her kind, flirt a bit, share confidences. They don't often fall in love with girls like that, but everybody loves them. Sergei Lukyanenko falling-in-love girl believe There are far more reasons for death than there are for life. Sergei Lukyanenko anton-gorodetsky reason It's great to be excited by your profession, whether you are a doctor or a writer. I started writing books when I was in medical school and, by the time I graduated, I realized that writing was more exciting to me than being a doctor. And if I tried to be a doctor and a writer, then both would suffer. Sergei Lukyanenko writing book school 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. Sergei Lukyanenko insulting guy book 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. Sergei Lukyanenko heat flames essence I am fat, lazy and kind. Sergei Lukyanenko fats lazy kind At home the very walls lend you strength. Sergei Lukyanenko wall home 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! Sergei Lukyanenko roots evil goes-on Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses. Sergei Lukyanenko impulse fleeting ability
