Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. The snail on the slope (№ 20649)

Others of you inspire unbelief and discouragement. And not because they are dark, or violent, or offer to give up hope, but because lying. Sometimes lie beaming with cheerful songs and dashing whistle, sometimes whining, moaning and apologizing, but lying. Somehow, these books will never burn and never removed from the library, was not yet in the history of the case, to lie betrayed the fire. Is that coincidence is not understood or believed.