“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
Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Great Benefactor! How absurd- to want pain! Can there be anyone who doesn't know that pain is a negative quality, and that… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.” — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
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 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
“It's clear: if there is no good reason for enviousness, the denominator of the fraction of happiness is brought to zero and… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“They longed for someone to tell them, once and for all, the meaning of happiness, and then to bind them to it… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“I ask you: what have people – from the very cradle- prayed for dreamed about and agonized over They wanted someone anyone… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
There are two generic and invariable features that characterize utopias. One is the content: the authors of utopias paint what they consider… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“But this is not your fault—you are sick. The name of this sickness is IMAGINATION. It is a worm that gnaws out… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“If they will not understand that we are bringing them a mathematically faultless happiness, our duty will be to force them to… — 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
