"Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring……" — 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."
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58 Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin has 58 quotes on this site.
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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…
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And why do you think that foolishness is bad? If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as…
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The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not…
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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;…
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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…
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Midsummer Night was roasting hot. The shore, of red granite, glowed with the heat; the dark blood of the earth…
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O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to…
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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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And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the…
— Juan Goytisolo
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For the first time in my life I saw the horizon as a curved line. It was accentuated by a…
— Unknown Author
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Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and women as…
— Pierre Loti
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A strongly accentuated zoophilism, such as an inordinate love of horses or dogs, throws the emotional nature out of balance;…
— William E. Woodward
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Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion,…
— Eugene Delacroix
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Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and…
— Victor Hugo
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Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of to-day - who are eager to become men and women as…
— Pierre Loti
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