“There were two in paradise and the choice was offered to them: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness.” — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
...Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative... — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.” — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“if the speed of an aero equals zero, the aero is motionless; if human liberty is equal to zero, man does not… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
We have lived through the epoch of suppression of the masses; we are living in an epoch of suppression of the individual… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Paradise,’ he began, and the p meant a spray. ‘The old legend about Paradise—that was about us, about right now. Yes! Just… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Freedom and crime are so indissolubly connected to each other, like... well, like the movement of the aero and its velocity. When… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I've read and heard a lot of unbelievable stuff about those times when people lived in freedom -- that is, in disorganized… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“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 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
