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You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you you hate it because you are afraid of it you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Love

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.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Endings Knowing Life Novel People Worth

Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wild islanders, they too would only speak the truth until they learned about European culture.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Culture Lawyers Lies Lying Truth

Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Cruel Cruelty Lie Lying Truth

Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Freedom Happiness

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

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Apathy Death Murder

knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Dystopia Faith Religion Science

True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Writing

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

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Art Heretics Writers Writing

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Architecture Art Creativity Literature Music Painting Writing

We need writers who fear nothing. (Our Goal)

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Writers Writing

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

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Art Canon Literature Writing

It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this once in a thousand years has come today.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Anticipation Bloom Flowers Knowledge Timeliness Waiting

But clouds bellied out in the sultry heat, the sky cracked open with a crimson gash, spewed flame-and the ancient forest began to smoke. By morning there was a mass of booming, fiery tongues, a hissing, crashing, howling all around, half the sky black with smoke, and the bloodied sun just barely visible. And what can little men do with their spades, ditches, and pails? The forest is no more, it was devoured by fire: stumps and ash. Perhaps illimitable fields will be plowed here one day, perhaps some new, unheard-of wheat will ripen here and men from Arkansas with shaven faces will weigh in their palms the heavy golden grain. Or perhaps a city will grow up-alive with ringing sound and motion, all stone and crystal and iron-and winged men will come here flying over seas and mountains from all ends of the world. But never again the forest, never again the blue winter silence and the golden silence of summer. And only the tellers of tales will speak in many-colored patterned words about what had been, about wolves and bears and stately green-coated century-old grandfathers, about old Russia; they will speak about all this to us who have seen it with our own eyes ten years - a hundred years! - ago, and to those others, the winged ones, who will come in a hundred years to listen and to marvel at it all as at a fairy tale. (In Old Russia)

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Fire Forest Fire Future Russia Time

The sun's champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of the grass, covered by a raspberry umbrella. Only their feet and a little bit of lace could be seen. In the magnificent universe beneath the raspberry umbrella, with closed eyes, they drank in the sparkling madness.'Extra! Extra! Zeppelins over the North Sea at 3 o'clock.'But under the umbrella, in the raspberry universe, they were immortal. What did it matter that in another far-away universe people would be killing each other?

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Complacency Lovers Park War

Darkness. The door into the neighboring room is not quite shut. A strip of light stretches through the crack in the door across the ceiling. People are walking about by lamplight. Something has happened. The strip moves faster and faster and the dark walls move further and further apart, into infinity. This room is London and there are thousands of doors. The lamps dart about and the strips dart across the ceiling. And perhaps it is all delirium...Something had happened. The black sky above London burst into fragments: white triangles, squares and lines - the silent geometric delirium of searchlights. The blinded elephant buses rushed somewhere headlong with their lights extinguished. The distinct patter along the asphalt of belated couples, like a feverish pulse, died away. Everywhere doors slammed and lights were put out. And the city lay deserted, hollow, geometric, swept clean by a sudden plague: silent domes, pyramids, circles, arches, towers, battlements.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Airstrike Bombing London War

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Freedom

I walked alone through the twilit street. The wind was whirling, driving, carrying me like a slip of paper. Fragments of cast-iron sky flew and flew-they had another day, two days to hurtle through infinity… The unifs of passersby brushed against me, but I walked alone. I saw it clearly: everyone was saved, but there was no salvation for me. I did not want salvation …(c)

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Freedom Love

Then how can there be a final revolution? There is no final one, revolutions are infinite.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Politics Revolution

I looked silently at her lips. All women are lips, all lips. Some are pink and firmly round: a ring, a tender guardrail from the whole world. And then there are these ones: a second ago they weren’t here, and just now — like a knife-slit — they are here, still dripping sweet blood.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Women

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Balance Beauty Harmony Style Ugly Vice Virtue

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

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Art Heresy Heretics Literature

Life itself has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates of Einstein, of revolution. In this new projection, the best-known formulas and objects become displaced, fantastic, familiar-unfamiliar. This is why it is so logical for literature today to be drawn to the fantastic plot, or to the amalgam of reality and fantasy. (The New Russian Prose)

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Art Fantasy Literature Realism

But if I am not a criminal, I beg to be permitted to go abroad with my wife temporarily, for at least one year, with the right to return as soon as it becomes possible in our country to serve great ideas in literature without cringing before little men, as soon as there is at least a partial change in the prevailing view concerning the role of the literary artist. (“Letter To Stalin”)

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Art Dissident Expatriate Lierature Writing

What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons; we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless 'Why?' and 'What next?'(Literature, Revolution, and Entropy)

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Art Fearsome Literaturem Ultimate Writing

If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Foolishness Humanity Intelligence

How do you know nonsense isn't a good thing? if human nonsense had been nurtured and developed for centuries, just as intelligence has, then perhaps something extraordinarily previous could have come from it.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Intelligence Nonsense We

You can only love something that refuses to be mastered.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Passion

Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers are invariably children.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Children Philosophy

Let my notes, like the most sensitive seismograph, record the curve of even the most insignificant vibrations of my brain: for it is precisely such vibrations that are sometimes the forewarning of...

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Notes Thoughts Writing

Tipsy, they tumbled early into bed - to get as much sleep as they could. So they would feel less hunger. The summer catch had been poor; there wasn't much food. They ate with care and looked sideways at the old: the old were gluttons, everybody knew it, and what was the good of feeding them? It wouldn't harm them to starve a little. The hungry dogs howled. The women rinsed the children's bellies with hot water three times a day, so they wouldn't cry so much for food. The old starved silently. (The North)

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Elderly Hunger Oldl Starve Poor Poverty Starvation

But a thought swarmed in me; what if he, this yellow-eyed being – in his ridiculous, dirty bundle of trees, in his uncalculated life – is happier than us?

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Dystopian Fiction Science Fiction

...sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Hypocrisy Judgment Morality

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

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Capital Punishment Death Government Humanity Murder

Strictly speaking, she was out of order. This dear 0-, how shall 1 say it?The speed of her tongue is not correctly calculated; the speed per second of her tongue should be slightly less than the speed per second of her thoughts-at any rate not the reverse.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin We Woman Women Zamyatin

In the ancient world, this was understood by the Christians, our only (if very imperfect) predecessors: Humility is a virtue, pride a vice; We comes from God, I from the Devil.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Christianity Humility Pride

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

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Christ Heresy Heretics Tolstoy

There is no final one, revolutions are infinite.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Revolution

N-no-o, all that excitement, it wouldn't reach us,' Timosha spoke gloomily. 'We're like the sunken city of Kitezh, living at the bottom of the lake. We do not hear a thing, and the water over us is muddy and sleepy. And on the surface, way above - why, everything's in flames, and the alarms are ringing.' (“A Provincial Tale”)

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Provincialism Revolution Russian Revolution

The flame will cool tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow (in the Book of Genesis days are equal to years, ages). But someone must see this already today, and speak heretically today about tomorrow. Heretics are the only (bitter) remedy against the entropy of human thought.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin Heresy Revolution
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