Anton Gorodetsky Quotes

• 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

  Lying, Years, Common

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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• 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?

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Lying, Light, Order

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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.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Drinking, Book, Philosophical

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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• There are far more reasons for death than there are for life.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Reason

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2009). “Last Watch”, p.61, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Fear, People, Important

  Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Nikolaevich Vasilʹev (2007). “Day watch”, Miramax

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