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What is it to you if I don't want others to want for me, if I want to want myself - if I want the impossible ... — Yevgeny Zamyatin

I've read and heard a lot of unbelievable stuff about those times when people lived in freedom
that is, in disorganized wildness. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

A point contains more unknowns than anything else; it need but stir, move, and it may turn into thousands of curves, thousands of bodies. I — Yevgeny Zamyatin

But still, how could they write whole libraries about someone like Kant and hardly even notice Taylor-that prophet who could see ten centuries ahead? — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Final things are for children, because infinity scares children, and it is important that children sleep peacefully at night. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X") — Yevgeny Zamyatin

We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal") — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Shutting my eyes, I dreamed in formulas. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

My dear, you are a mathematician. You're even more, you're a philosopher of mathematics. So do this for me: Tell me the final number. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

She was like a candle that just went out. All the circles that made her up suddenly got lopsided and warped. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

At night numbers must sleep; it is their duty, just as it is their duty to work in the daytime. Not sleeping at night is a criminal offense. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

There were two in paradise and the choice was offered to them: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Literature is painting, architecture, and music. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith — Yevgeny Zamyatin

And what is strangest of all, most unnatural of all, is that the finger hasn't got the slightest desire to be on the hand, to be with the others; — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Everything used to revolve around the sun; now I knew it all revolved around me-slowly, blissfully, squinting its eyes. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Revolutions are infinite. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

The speed of a tongue should always go some seconds behind the speed of thought, never the other way around. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

During the first firing a dozen or so numbers from the dock neglected to get out of the way - nothing remained of them except some crumbs and soot. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

We comes from God, I from the Devil. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Everyone has to go mad, it's essential fir everyone to go mad - as soon as possible! It's essential - I know. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential - I know it. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love for man. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

The purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

All women are lips, nothing but lips. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

How awful for you! By the looks of it, you've developed a soul. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

The art of the word is painting + architecture + music. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

The whole of life, in all its complexity and beauty, has been etched into the gold of words. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North") — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger. — Yevgeny Zamyatin