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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.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Yevgeny Zamyatin
Age: 53 †
Born: 1884
Born: January 1
Died: 1937
Died: January 1
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If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
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What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they did intelligence, it might have turned into something of special value.
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To an artist, creating an image means being in love with it.
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The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy...
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Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
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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 appeal, not to those who reject today in the name of a return to yesterday, not to those who are hopelessly deafened by today we appeal to those who see the distant tomorrow -- and judge today in the name of tomorrow.
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The moon ... is a mad woman holding up her dress So that her white belly shines. Haughty, Impregnable, Ridiculous, Silent and white as a debauched queen.
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I am aware of myself. And, of course, the only things that are aware of themselves and conscious of their individuality are irritated eyes, cut fingers, sore teeth. A healthy eye, finger, tooth might as well not even be there. Isn't it clear that individual consciousness is just sickness?
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The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers.
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Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.
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I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.
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To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or another.
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It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love for man.
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The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love.
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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.
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By complex ways, by looking deep into the dark well of the human soul, full of filth, somewhere at the very bottom of it Chekhov at last found his faith. And this faith turned out to be faith in man, in the power of human progress. And man became his god.
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The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need for the coercive power of the state.
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An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.
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What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturabtion … whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.
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