Author of quotes: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

You have sable eyebrows. I don't know exactly what those words mean, but it's about something very beautiful. About you.

- Tie. Damage him and tie! Hey, who's there with a crossbow?
- As if he is crippled...
- Nothing cripple. Everybody knows he's such a vow, not to kill.
- Slaughtered like dogs, ' said Rumata in a terrible voice. Behind him pressed Kira. He heard her heart beating wildly. Below shouted a squeaky: "Break, brothers! In the name of the Lord!"
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From Rumata of pity and tenderness heart sank. Chase, like dogs, he thought. He bent, looking for the second sword, and when straightened up again, Kira was not at the window. She slowly slid to the floor, clinging to the curtain.
- Kira! - he shouted. One crossbow arrow pierced her throat, the other was sticking out of his chest. He took her in his arms and moved to the bed. "Kira..." he called. She whimpered and stretched out. "Kira..." he said. She didn't answer. He stood over her, then picked up the swords, slowly descended the stairs into the hallway and began to wait, when will fall the door...

Something to me became in recent years, he thought. Something I lost... the Goal I lost, that's what. Some five years ago, I knew exactly why certain of my actions. And now - I don't know. Know Naupaka should be put to the wall. And why is it - is unclear. That is, of course, that would be much easier to work with, but why do it - to make it easier for me to work with? It's the only one I need. For yourself. How many years I live for myself... This is probably correct: for me, nothing to me, I will not live, to have to take care of. But it's boring, sad, exhausted... And there is no choice, he thought. That's what I understood. Nothing man can not and can not. One thing he can and knows how to live for yourself. He even teeth gritted from the hopeless clarity and certainty of this idea.

- Do not understand! said Izzy. - You're all idiots. And the danger is only to intelligent people.
- The cretins - the cretins. ' said Andrew. - You're right.
Yeah! Getting smarter! exclaimed Izzy, waving the mutilated hand. - In vain. It's dangerous! That is the whole tragedy. Now a lot of people wiser, but the wiser is not enough. They won't know that now have to be a fool...

The human animal is the anarchist, and anarchy will eat it, if the system is not tough enough.

Rumor has it that without books they can't... like normal people without food and other things.

You can, of course, to write about the meaning of life is to love others and to him as well, that he loves our neighbors and loves his job, but this person wrote a couple of thousand years ago, Lord Luke, Matthew, John...

A familiar critic - big bastard - praised new book REC-Tusova, and this was cloudier, because the book was good.

Every famous writer expresses the ideology of a society or part of society.

The old worlds had to destroy it because they bothered... bothered to build new, not like new, pressed his...

You can't imagine building the new without destroying the old. And we imagine it very well. Build just to build. To destroy nothing.

It seems that the future still managed to run tentacles into the heart of the present, and the future was cold and ruthless, he didn't care about all the achievements of the past - real or imaginary.

Progress is a movement of society to such a state where people don't kill, don't trample and don't torture each other.

The state apparatus, of the Lord at all times revered as its main task the preservation of the status quo. Don't know whether it was justified earlier, but now this function of the state is simply required.