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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 flame will cool tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow.... But someone must see this already today, and speak heretically today about tomorrow. Heretics are the only (bitter) remedy against the entropy of human thought.
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How do you know that nonsense isn't a good thing? If human nonsense had been nurtured and developed for centuries, just as intelligence has, then perhaps something extraordinarily precious could have come from it.
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There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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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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Literature is painting, architecture, and music.
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The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse.
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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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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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All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow there is no final number.
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The purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it.
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Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.
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The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. (The North)
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And tomorrow--who knows what happens? Do you get it? I don't know and no one knows--it's all unknown! You understand, that this is the end to the Known? This is the new, the improbable, the unpredictable.
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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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The world is kept alive only by heretics.
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Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . .
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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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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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