Balance Quote by Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.”

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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