Children Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin

9 Children quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin

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Yevgeny Zamyatin presents nine brief observations about children. His incisive, literary voice surfaces in each line, providing a quick, thoughtful glimpse into his perspective on growing up.

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“Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of…

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

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“All of us and perhaps all of you read in childhood, while in school, that greatest of all monuments of ancient literature,…

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“Final things are for children, because infinity scares children, and it is important that children sleep peacefully at night.”

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“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…

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

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“Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers are invariably children.”

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

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

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

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

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“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,"…

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“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…

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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…

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what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another…

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“I felt I hadn't breathed since early morning, that my heart had not beat-and only now for the first time I took a breath,…

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“What is the matter -a soul? You say a soul? Oh, damn it! We may soon retrogress even to the cholera epidemics.”

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