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“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, Night Watch

“The common good and the individual good rarely coincide.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch

“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, Night Watch

“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, Night Watch

“The hardest thing of all is when pain is hidden behind a mask of calm.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch

“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, Night Watch

“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, Night Watch

“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, Night Watch

“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, Night Watch

“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, Night Watch

“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, Night Watch

“How wonderful it would be if everything could always be as clear and simple as it used to be when you were twelve years old, or twenty years old. If there really were only two colors in the world: black and white. But even the most honest and ingenuous cop, raised on the resounding ideal of the stars and stripes, has to understand sooner or later that there's more than just Darkness and Light out on the streets. There are understandings, concessions, agreements. Informers, traps, provocations. Sooner or later the time comes when you have to betray your own side, plant bags of heroin in pockets, and beat people on the kidneys—carefully, so there are no marks.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch

“In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch

“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.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch

“That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy gestures.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch

“Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch

“If we do any deed that is unconditionally good, it gives the Dark Magicians the right to do an evil deed.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch

“Do you have a truth of your own, Anton? Tell me, do you? Are you certain of it? Then believe it, not in my truth, not in Geser's. Believe in it and fight for it. If you have enough courage. If the idea doesn't make you shudder. What's bad about Dark freedom is not just that it's freedom from others. That's another explanation for little children. Dark freedom is first and foremost freedom from yourself, from your own conscience and your own soul. The moment you can't feel any pain in your chest—call for help. Only by then it'll be too late”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch

“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, Night Watch

“So what's vodka for"
"For the soul. If it's hurting real bad.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch

“What if every time you fought for love, you were fighting for the whole world? For the whole world - not against the whole world.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch

“What did a young body mean, when you could see the dust of the centuries in the other person’s eyes?”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch

“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”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch

“When we acknowledge that human beings have the right to choose, we deprive ourselves of it,”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch

“The number of people who will be horrified by what happens, who will spill tears of sympathy with others�� grief, will be very great. But there will be more, infinitely more, who will sit with their eyes glued greedily to their TV screens, who will take pleasure in other people’s suffering, feel glad that it passed their city by, and make jokes about the retribution meted out to the Third Rome . . . retribution from on high. You know that, my enemy.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch

“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, Night Watch

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„Za dušu. Ako je bol neutoljiv.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch

“„Ne. Sveta, jesi li ikada čula za analogiju... ljubav - to je cvijet?��
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„I šta s tim? Je l' to ljubav?��
„Sveta, isječeno cvijeće je lijepo. Ali nije dugovječno. Ono ipak umire, pa makar i brižljivo
spušteno u kristalnu vazu sa sviježom vodom.��
„On se boji da voli��, zamišljeno reče Svetlana. „Je l' da? Ja se nisam bojala, zato što
nisam znala ovo...”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch

“„Je l' ti znaš šta je to? Biti osu�en na ljubav?
„Ali zar to nije uvijek?�� Svetlana čak zadrhta od negodovanja. „Kada se dvoje vole, kada
se pronalaze među tisućama, milijunima... To je uvijek sudbina!”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch

“Za kierownicą siedział krótko obcięty, dwudziestopięcioletni chłopak, kompletnie pozbawiony szyi. Głowa łączyła się bezpośrednio z tułowiem, oczy, całkowicie puste, „tęskniły za rozumem��.”
― Siergiej Łukjanienko, Night Watch