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Men Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
- She moved nearer, leaned her shoulder against me — and we were one, and something flowed from her into me, and I knew: this is…
- The knife is the most durable, immortal, the most genius thing that man created. The knife was the guillotine; the knife is the universal means…
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