Yevgeny Zamyatin

“The whole of life, in all its complexity and beauty, has been etched into the gold of words.”

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“I bent down to I-330 and drank her in with my eyes for the last time.”

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Well, fallen angel. Now you're quite ruined," she said, reverting to the formal you. "No, aren't you afraid? Well, goodbye! You'll get…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Our gods are here, below, with us---in the office, the kitchen, the workshop, the toilet; the gods have become like us. Ergo,…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Homo sapiens is only man, in the fullest sense of the word, when his grammar contains no question marks, only exclamation marks,…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

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…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“All their Immanuel Kants together couldn’t do it! It didn’t enter the heads of all their Kants to build a system of…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

By complex ways, by looking deep into the dark well of the human soul, full of filth, somewhere at the very bottom…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Philosophers of genius, children, and the people are equally wise - because they ask equally foolish questions. Foolish to a civilized man…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“But why is it that within me "I don't want to" and "I want to" stand side by side? That is the…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“No, I did not understand. But I nodded silently. I was dissolved, I was infinitely small, I was a point... There is,…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“And it's also clear that what I felt yesterday, that stupid "dissolving in the universe", if you take it to its limit,…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Yesterday, there was a Tzar and there were slaves. Today, there is no Tzar, but the slaves are still here. Tomorrow there…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The highly complex, almost mathematical, nature of music creates for it an ironclad protection against the microbes of dilletantism, which penetrate much…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“I ask you: what have people – from the very cradle- prayed for dreamed about and agonized over They wanted someone anyone…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Latchkey! I mean . . . I want to talk to you . . .' He fell silent, glancing behind him and…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

To the feudal aristocracy and the aristocracy of the spirit, nobility derives from diametrically opposite sources. The glory of the feudal aristocrat…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“More wine for me, pour me some more!" "You smart girl, I knew you're a smart girl, just teasing...” Faces turn red,…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“In the widely open cup of the armchair was I-330. I, on the floor, embracing her limbs, my head on her lap.…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“From a distance a metronome is ticking through the fog, and I mechanically chew to the familiar caress of its music, counting,…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

There are two generic and invariable features that characterize utopias. One is the content: the authors of utopias paint what they consider…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“I am puzzled. Yesterday, at the very moment when I thought. everything was untangled, and that all the X's were at last…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

In order to write about the machine you have to know it, to live with it, to love it (or hate it).…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.”

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Then how can there be a final revolution? There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.”

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you; you hate it because you are afraid of it; you love…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers have to be children. Precisely like children, and there should always be: but…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin