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Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Yevgeny Zamyatin
Age: 53 †
Born: 1884
Born: January 1
Died: 1937
Died: January 1
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The knife is the most durable, immortal, the most genius thing that man created. The knife was the guillotine the knife is the universal means of solving all knots and along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox - the single most worthy path of the fearless mind.
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But you can't plead with autumn. No. The midnight wind stalked through the woods, hooted to frighten you, swept everything away for the approaching winter, whirled the leaves. (The North)
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Knowledge! What does that mean? Your knowledge is nothing but cowardice. No, really, that's all it is. You just want to put a little wall around infinity. And you're afraid to look on the other side of that wall.
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And why do you think that foolishness is bad? 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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If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
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All women are lips, nothing but lips.
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Only the rational and useful is beautiful.
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The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself.
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And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.
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We comes from God, I from the Devil.
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The world is kept alive only by heretics.
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All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.
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The lilac branches are bowed under the weight of the flowers: blooming is hard, and the most important thing is - to bloom. (“A Story About The Most Important Thing”)
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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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