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Yevgeny Zamyatin has 58 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other…
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And why do you think that foolishness is bad? If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has…
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The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the…
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Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.
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Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
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The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife…
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What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they…
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Midsummer Night was roasting hot. The shore, of red granite, glowed with the heat; the dark blood of the earth seemed to…
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O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a…
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The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.
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Keep your head up, Legs closed, Eyes open.
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The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the…
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I prefer to see with closed eyes.
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The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your…
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Last night I had rinsed out my sari strip and briefs in the sea. I walked down naked to where they hung…
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If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery…
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We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn…
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I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my…
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Father Mapple uplifted his closed eyes, and offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed to be kneeling at the bottom…
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To go into temptation to find how strong you are, is as wise as to go before a mirror, with closed eyes,…
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