Lara Biyuts > Lara's Quotes

“Some believe that every library looks like a splendid cemetery of human thoughts and ideas. Could librarians be called grave-diggers? However that may be, like a cemetery, a library will never stop being of use.”
― Lara Biyuts

“Mirrors don’t lie. They only show a part of truth. A broken mirror can enlarge a face up to a dimension of a small planet. A problem of reflection? A point of view.”
― Lara Biuts, La Lune Blanche. Part Three

“Sober Minds give the world a chance. True Love brings you Hope. Blind Faith moves mountains. And the main savior from despair is Laughter.”
― Lara Biuts

“Literary style is like crystal-ware: the cleaner the wineglass, the brighter the brilliance. As a reader, I agree with those who believe that a colour of the dress, which a character has on, as well as any enumeration and description of dishes at dinner or in the kitchen should be mentioned only in case if all this has a strong consequent relation to the plot, but as an author, I can’t help mentioning all this, with no particular reason, just for love for my characters, desiring to give them something nice and pleasant. Melancholy grows a platinum rose. Affection grows a double rose.”
― Lara Biyuts

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“What if experience is disappointment, and a human’s old age has no sense, and all what we acquire in our lifetime is a habit for disappointment?”
― Lara Biuts, The Sunless Parlour

“A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. ”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Zembla is a site devoted to the life and works of author, translator, and lepidopterist.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first. ”
― Oscar Wilde

“manuscripts don't burn" - "(рукописи не горят)”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

“It is symptomatic of the constricting specialism and the oppressive burden of fact of our time that it has been left to the imagination of a novelist, Marguerite Yourcenar, to create the broadest, the most balanced and in many ways the most authentic interpretation of the affair.”
― Royston Lambert

“One of the strengths of the belief in Antinous was its appeal to the most sensitive and inward of mystical natures as well as to the exuberant, joyous and ecstatic sides of human experience.”
― Royston Lambert

“Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality...”
― Petronius, The Satyricon

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Dogs have their day but cats have 365.”
― Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who... Omnibus 02 (Books 4-6): The Cat Who Saw Red / The Cat Who Played Brahms / The Cat Who Played Post Office

“Beware of the clever ones; the dumb ones are safer.”
― Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern

“Cats are cats . . . the world over!
These intelligent, peace-loving, four-footed friends- who are without prejudice, without hate, without greed- may someday teach us something.
-James Mackintosh Qwilleran”
― Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Saw Stars

“To understand all is to forgive all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“But after all we are not children, not illiterate juvenile delinquents, not English public school boys who after a night of homosexual romps have to endure the paradox of reading the Ancients in expurgated versions.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Must colour change?”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“Although there were moments even still in the grey glint of morning when the room had the agitated, stricken appearance of a person who had changed his creed a thousand times, sighed, stretched himself, turned a complete somersault, sat up, smiled, lay down, turned up his toes and died of doubts. But this aspect was reserved exclusively for the housemaids and the translucent threads of dawn.”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“Mentally, perhaps she was already three parts glass. So intense was her desire to set up a commemorative window to herself that, when it was erected, she believed she must leave behind in it, for ever, a little ghost. And should this be so, then what joy to be pierced each morning with light; her body flooded through and through by the sun, or in the evening to glow with a harvest of dark colours, deepening into untold sadness with the night....
What ecstasy! It was the Egyptian sighing for his pyramid, of course.”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“Rome seems a comfort to those with the ambitious soul of an Artist or a Conqueror.”
― Pietros Maneos, Poems of Blood and Passion

“Writer is always alone. But every author is a creator, and gods are lonely.”
― Lara Biuts, The Sunless Parlour

“…but he realized he would never reconcile himself to life as something other than a prelude. What’s life’s meaning then? What is it? What does make the world go round, not letting hope die? What do people dream about, watching the endless flow of years? They dream. A dream, that’s it. We live for our only dream, which can lead us, hand in hand, through our life; for the dream we reconcile ourselves to any frustrations and we shall struggle for releasing its silky wings from the net of reality. (The right to a mistake.)”
― Lara Biuts, The Sunless Parlour