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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

To an artist, creating an image means being in love with it. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

There is no final one; revolutions are infinite. — 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

Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

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

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 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

And how can there be a final revolution? There is no final one. The number of revolutions is infinite. — 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

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

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

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

Explosions are not comfortable. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

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

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

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

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

Revolutions are infinite. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox - the single most worthy path of the fearless mind ... — Yevgeny Zamyatin

And I learned from my own experience that laughter was the most potent weapon: laughter can kill everything. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Besides, I can't, I no longer have the strength to destroy this painful piece of myself, which might turn out to be the piece I value most. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

there should be no love just because, but only 'love because of. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse. — 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

Imagine yourself standing on a shore: waves rhythmically rising, rising, and then suddenly they stay there, they set, they freeze. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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