Lara Biyuts > 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

“The first snow is like the first love. Do you remember your first snow?”
― 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

“Woman has 3 ages: Youth, Second Youth and Everlasting Youth.”
― Lara Biyuts

“Women differ like snowflakes.”
― Lara Biyuts

“Catch sunbeams in a mirror! A reflection of a sunbeam can melt an iceberg.”
― Lara Biyuts

“Hope as evidence of life. Life as evidence of death.”
― Lara Biyuts

“I will survive: if the hell rejects me, there is always the paradise.”
― Lara Biyuts, La Arme Blanche

“Man is neither an angel nor a demon. Man is what his lover loves.”
― Lara Biyuts

“The bell tolling not for us, it’s time for bluebells.”
― Lara Biyuts

“Don Quixotes! Stand aback from my windmill!”
― Lara Biyuts

“Creative writing is your ability to develop your inner tension, your libido, your supply of energy and electric charge, turning the charge into an image or thought, and wording the thought, thus contributing all the activity of your mind to the immortal culture of humankind and subsequently to your own immortality.”
― Lara Biyuts, Latent Prints

“…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

“Every kingdom has three pillars: Poet, Sword and Law.”
― Lara Biyuts

“Whatever they say about it, but being altruistic is not so simple for everyone. Not to look and sound like despotism, altruism must be learnt, and it’s a long way, which in fact begins from our egoism, for really, a human can’t love others if he doesn’t love himself first.”
― Lara Biyuts

“We are pagans. We deify each other.”
― Lara Biyuts, The Dome

“In every love affair, only the moon is free of charge.”
― Lara Biyuts, La Lune Blanche. Part One and Part Two

“Some believe that as an icon the image of Oscar Wilde is too old and notorious--all right, not an icon, let him be our oriflamme.”
― Lara Biyuts, Forever Jocelyn

“I hate fallen angels. They can talk about nothing but their fall and sins.”
― Lara Biyuts

“It’s despicable of an author to kill his main personage solely for stirring imagination of indifferent or mean minds.”
― Lara Biyuts, Forever Jocelyn

“Starfall in the sky as a result of anybody’s Fall here below?”
― Lara Biyuts

“You need not to burn copies of a book. Just make people feel indifferent to the book.”
― Lara Biyuts

“Every reader can live One Thousand and One Lives; every fiction author can have One Thousand and One Masks, and their talent can have One Thousand and One Facets.”
― Lara Biyuts

“The Rape of Europa. Both the myth and the picture only prove the power of beauty to turn anyone into a beast.”
― Lara Biyuts

“Time whips up cream for those who are ready for dessert.”
― Lara Biyuts, La Arme Blanche

“Seven pillars of wisdom propping the roof of the temple. Always remember what there's beyond the pillars.”
― Lara Biyuts

“There is the title of one book In Underground One Can Meet Only Rats. And I'd re-phrase, In Cosmos One Can Meet Only Mutants, besides, rats are mutants too there, in cosmos, therefore, I'd rather walk on the ground.”
― Lara Biyuts, The Sunless Parlour

“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

“Nurse your grief, don’t spill a drop of it, because it’ll help you to reach your zenith, some day.”
― Lara Biyuts

“Art for Art’s Sake is for the well fed. The well fed are all the babies in cradles and my kitty along with them, and I am happy if my writings are for my kitty.”
― Lara Biyuts, The Dome