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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

Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number. — 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

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicles of planets. Nothing in them is not particular, and planet is dissimilar from planet. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

All values in this world are more or less questionable, but the most important thing in life is human kindness. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective. — Andre Agassi

The moon hangs alien, heavy, like a lock on a door; the door is tightly shut. ("The North") — Yevgeny Zamyatin

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

A person is like a novel: Up to the very last page you don't know how it's going to end. Otherwise, there'd be no point in reading ... — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

It is not your fault; you are ill. And the name of your illness is: FANCY. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction known as happiness? — 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

And what if you don't wait? You just drive over the edge yourself? Wouldn't that be the only right thing to do, the one that would solve everything? — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Explosions are not comfortable. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

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

Who never knew the price of happiness will not be happy. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

My country is taking over in tennis — Yevgeny Kafelnikov

Revolutions are infinite. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or another. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm. — Yevgeny Baratynsky

Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.
("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy") — Yevgeny Zamyatin

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Her smile was a bite, and I was its target. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

... the natural course from nullity to grandeur is to forget that you are a gramme and to feel that you are a millionth part of a ton. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring
thus he erred himself. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter - even murder itself. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Life is a rainbow which also includes black. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

A human being is like a novel: until the last page you don't know how it will end. Or it wouldn't be worth reading. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

The mighty power of logic cleanses all it touches. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative ... — Yevgeny Zamyatin

The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

I stopped and listened. But all I could hear was.. a kind of thudding, and not in me but somewhere near me ... my heart. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy. ("Tomorrow") — Yevgeny Zamyatin

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

No Jewish blood runs among my blood,but I am as bitterly and hardly hatedby every anti-semiteas if I were a Jew. By thisI am a Russian. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

All women are lips, nothing but lips. — 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

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

He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

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

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Envy is an insult to oneself. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

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

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

We comes from God, I from the Devil. — 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

True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet. — Allen Tate

Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I think the three years have demonstrated how little this argument has to do with reality. — Yevgeny Primakov

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

They tell me, shaking their heads:
"You should be kinder. You are somehow furious".
I used to be kind. It didn't last long. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

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

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

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

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

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

In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

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

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

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