When we remove the snowdrift piled up over Chekhov in recent years, we uncover a man profoundly agitated by social problems; a… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom. — 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
The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The knife is the most durable, immortal, the most genius thing that man created. The knife was the guillotine; the knife is… — 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
O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Philosophers of genius, children, and the people are equally wise - because they ask equally foolish questions. Foolish to a civilized man… — 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
The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
She moved nearer, leaned her shoulder against me — and we were one, and something flowed from her into me, and I… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
By complex ways, by looking deep into the dark well of the human soul, full of filth, somewhere at the very bottom… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man. — 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
