Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes and Sayings
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“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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“Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.”
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“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.”
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“There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.”
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“Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.”
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“Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?”
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“We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")”
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“You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.”
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“I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a minute, melted metal will begin to drip and everything will turn to nothing. Quick: get cold water, logic. I am pouring it over myself by the bucketload but the logic sizzles on the hot bearings and dissipates elusive white steam into the air.”
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