Yevgeny Zamyatin

All women are lips, nothing but lips.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Her smile was a bite, and I was its target.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The mighty power of logic cleanses all it touches.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Individual consciousness is just sickness.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The world is kept alive only by heretics.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Explosions are not comfortable.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Shutting my eyes, I dreamed in formulas.”

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

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

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“...sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.”

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X")

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

What is it to you if I don't want others to want for me, if I want to want myself — if…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The speed of her tongue is not correctly calculated; the speed per second of her toungue should be slightly less than the…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons... we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless "Why?"…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“... viteza pe secunda a limbii trebuie sa fie intotdeauna ceva mai mica decat viteza pe secunda a gandirii, in nici un…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers will always be children. So you're right, it's a child's question, just as…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“I had never known this before, but now I do and so do you: Laughter comes in different colours. It is only…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“I looked silently at her lips. All women are lips, nothing but lips. Some are pink, supple, round-a right, a tender shield…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The literature of the immediate future will inevitably turn away from painting, whether respectably realistic or modern, and from daily life, whether…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“I'm like a machine being run over its RPM limit. The bearings are overheating: a minute longer and the metal will melt…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“It’s clear that you want to seem original. But is it possible that you—?” “It is clear,” interrupted I-330, “that to be…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

It has never occurred to me before, but this is truly how it is: all of us on earth walk constantly over…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

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…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“I looked silently at her lips. All women are lips, all lips. Some are pink and firmly round: a ring, a tender…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“But how was I going to explain my whole being, this whole disease that I've been jotting down in these pages? So…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Even among the ancients the more grown-up knew that the source of right is power, that right is a function of power.…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“The wind blew through the window. The trousers swayed. Doubtless when they were on Mr. Craggs, the trousers looked splendid and went…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“So here I am in step with everyone now, and yet I'm still separate from everyone. I am still trembling all over…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“White-crested waves crash on the shore. The masts sway violently, every which way. In the gray sky the gulls are circling like…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“I've come to read and hear many unlikely things about the times when people lived in freedom, i.e., the unorganized savage state.…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Tipsy, they tumbled early into bed - to get as much sleep as they could. So they would feel less hunger. The…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“They say that with the ancients dreaming was a perfectly ordinary, normal occurrence. But of course, their whole life was a dreadful…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin