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Yevgeny Zamyatin brings his literary edge to the present moment. In eight short verses he probes the undercurrents of modern society, offering a compact yet striking glimpse of his critical eye.

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The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be…

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The flame will cool tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow… But someone must see this already today, and speak heretically today about…

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It was clear: I was sick. I never used to dream. They say in the old days it was the most normal…

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Life itself today has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates…

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All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final…

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All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final…

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We appeal, not to those who reject today in the name of a return to yesterday, not to those who are hopelessly…

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What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons... we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless "Why?"…

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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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