Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Homo sapiens is only man, in the fullest sense of the word, when his grammar contains no question marks, only exclamation marks,…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Do you know this feeling? When you're in an aero speeding up through a blue spiral, the window open, the wind whistling,…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

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

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“No, I did not understand. But I nodded silently. I was dissolved, I was infinitely small, I was a point... There is,…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

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

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul." A soul? That strange, ancient, long-forgotten word. We sometimes use the…

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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…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The lilac branches are bowed under the weight of the flowers: blooming is hard, and the most important thing is - to…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling…

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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…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“What is the matter -a soul? You say a soul? Oh, damn it! We may soon retrogress even to the cholera epidemics.”

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

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

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“But still, how could they write whole libraries about someone like Kant and hardly even notice Taylor-that prophet who could see ten…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“There were two in paradise and the choice was offered to them: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness.”

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

...Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative...

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

When we remove the snowdrift piled up over Chekhov in recent years, we uncover a man profoundly agitated by social problems; a…

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“Do you believe that you will die? Yes man is mortal I am a man ergo... no that isn't what I mean.…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“White-crested waves crash on the shore. The masts sway violently, every which way. In the gray sky the gulls are circling like…

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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,…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Tipsy, they tumbled early into bed - to get as much sleep as they could. So they would feel less hunger. The…

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The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Well, fallen angel. Now you're quite ruined," she said, reverting to the formal you. "No, aren't you afraid? Well, goodbye! You'll get…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin