"The common good and the individual good rarely coincide."

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

Sergei Lukyanenko

#Common Quotes #Individual Quotes #Common Good Quotes

“As but a swift glance is enough to catch the glory of a great landscape, or only a little lingering is necessary to observe many peculiar beauties in it, so but a brief turn of the mind to sublime thoughts will give us their light and power.”
“Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.”
“The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. Three hundred sixty-five days later, we try again and find that the same thing has happened. Each time the goal is reached, it becomes Not So Much Fun, and we're off to reach the next one, then the next one, then the next.”
“I'll never forget my friends and where I came from.”
“I just want to say we support the troops and we love every one of them. Even if they...I know a lot of my friends that are in the military that they don't agree with...Some of them are total, total liberals or this or that, whatever they are and I just want to say that we love all the troops. We don't care what they believe in, they're defending our country and we love them for that. And they're the biggest bad assses...in the world and we just want to thank you. We hope they enjoy the music and we'll keep pumping it out and just keep staying bad asses!”
“I loved couriers. You had this transfer of physical information happening throughout the city and the world. Someone picking up the package, putting it in a bag, going somewhere, taking it out of the bag, giving it to someone else. I thought that was so cool. I wanted to map it, to see that flow on a big screen.”
“"World War III, was the Cold War".”
“The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.”

Source : "Dracula". Book by Garrett Fort, 1931.

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