People Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin

8 People quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin

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Yevgeny Zamyatin’s eight short reflections on people carry his dystopian edge and sharp critique. Though modest in size, the selection offers a potent glimpse into his skeptical view of society.

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They do not need the sun. Who needs the sun when the eyes glow? Darkness. A woolen fog has wrapped the earth,…

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“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even…

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In order to write about the machine you have to know it, to live with it, to love it (or hate it).…

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I've read and heard a lot of unbelievable stuff about those times when people lived in freedom -- that is, in disorganized…

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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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We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X")

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It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who…

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The sun's champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of the grass, covered…

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knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith

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“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…

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“Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought. ("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")”

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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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In adopting the form of the adventure novel, Wells deepened it, raised its intellectual value, and brought into it elements of social philosophy and…

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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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The literature of the immediate future will inevitably turn away from painting, whether respectably realistic or modern, and from daily life, whether old or…

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