All Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes
- Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? Bliss
- Explosions are not comfortable. Comfortable
- The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality. Agonising
- And why do you think that foolishness is bad? If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries,… Bad
- The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse. Always Slightly
- Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger. Ergo
- Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought. Bitter
- The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife is a universal… All
- What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they did intelligence, it… Age
- Midsummer Night was roasting hot. The shore, of red granite, glowed with the heat; the dark blood of the earth seemed to be rising from… All
- O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a wild animal only… All
- The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy. Art
- Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number. Everywhere
- You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul. Bad
- It was clear: I was sick. I never used to dream. They say in the old days it was the most normal thing in the… Brain
- You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you; you hate it because you are afraid of it; you love it because you… Afraid
- A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading. End
- There is no final one; revolutions are infinite. Final
- It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a… Bloom
- The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage. Brevity
- There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes… Atheism
- The speed of her tongue is not correctly calculated; the speed per second of her toungue should be slightly less than the speed per second… Any
- Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . . Along
- It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The… Act
- The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening. Born
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