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

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Yevgeny Zamyatin
Age: 53 †
Born: 1884
Born: January 1
Died: 1937
Died: January 1
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Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin
Eugene Zamyatin
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Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.
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Individual consciousness is just sickness.
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Her smile was a bite, and I was its target.
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We have lived through the epoch of suppression of the masses we are living in an epoch of suppression of the individual in the name of the masses tomorrow will bring the liberation of the individual - in the name of man.
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There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.
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It has never occurred to me before, but this is truly how it is: all of us on earth walk constantly over a seething, scarlet sea of flame, hidden below, in the belly of the earth. We never think of it. But what if the thin crust under our feet should turn into glass and we should suddenly see?
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The purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it.
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Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
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Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.
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And happiness...Well, after all, desires torment us, don't they? And, clearly, happiness is when there are no more desires, not one...What a mistake, what ridiculous prejudice it's been to have marked happiness always with a plus sign. Absolute happiness should, of course, carry a minus sign — the divine minus.
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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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The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers.
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You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.
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I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.
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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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We have long become overgrown with calluses we no longer hear people being killed. (X)
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You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.
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We need writers who fear nothing. (Our Goal)
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