Creatures Quote by Yevgeny Zamyatin

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

— 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, and there's…

— 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, after all,…

— 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 philosophy and…

— 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 words "soul-stirring,"…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“But how was I going to explain my whole being, this whole disease that I've been jotting down in these pages? So I shut…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

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

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

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

— Yevgeny Zamyatin