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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.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Yevgeny Zamyatin
Age: 53 †
Born: 1884
Born: January 1
Died: 1937
Died: January 1
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There is no final one revolutions are infinite.
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When we remove the snowdrift piled up over Chekhov in recent years, we uncover a man profoundly agitated by social problems a writer whose social ideals are the same as those we live by a philosophy of the divinity of man, of fervent faith in man - the faith that moves mountains.
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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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Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.
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The purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it.
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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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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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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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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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Only the rational and useful is beautiful.
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Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
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Individual consciousness is just sickness.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.
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