To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons... we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless "Why?"… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought. ("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")” — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“A person is like a novel: Up to the very last page you don't know how it's going to end. Otherwise, there'd… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that that insanity called love and jealousy does exist, and not only in the idiotic books of the ancients?… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The literature of the immediate future will inevitably turn away from painting, whether respectably realistic or modern, and from daily life, whether… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The highly complex, almost mathematical, nature of music creates for it an ironclad protection against the microbes of dilletantism, which penetrate much… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“The flame will cool tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow (in the Book of Genesis days are equal to years, ages). But… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“If you try to follow the language of thought in your own mind, you will not find even the simplest sentences- only… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“And how about the "Daily Odes to the Benefactor"? Who can read them without bowing his head reverently before the selfless labor… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
In adopting the form of the adventure novel, Wells deepened it, raised its intellectual value, and brought into it elements of social… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“But if I am not a criminal, I beg to be permitted to go abroad with my wife temporarily, for at least… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“All of us and perhaps all of you read in childhood, while in school, that greatest of all monuments of ancient literature,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Truth is the first thing that present-day literature lacks. The writer has drowned himself in lies, he is too accustomed to speak… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“A person is a novel: you don't know how it will end until the very last page. Otherwise, it wouldn't be worth… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons; we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless 'Why?'… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Homo sapiens is only man, in the fullest sense of the word, when his grammar contains no question marks, only exclamation marks, commas, and… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Do you know this feeling? When you're in an aero speeding up through a blue spiral, the window open, the wind whistling, and there's… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought. ("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")” — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“No, I did not understand. But I nodded silently. I was dissolved, I was infinitely small, I was a point... There is, after all,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
In adopting the form of the adventure novel, Wells deepened it, raised its intellectual value, and brought into it elements of social philosophy and… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul." A soul? That strange, ancient, long-forgotten word. We sometimes use the words "soul-stirring,"… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“But how was I going to explain my whole being, this whole disease that I've been jotting down in these pages? So I shut… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The lilac branches are bowed under the weight of the flowers: blooming is hard, and the most important thing is - to bloom. (“A… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
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