"The nights were long, like the braids of……" — Yevgeny Zamyatin
"The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")"
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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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Before AIM, Indians were dispirited, defeated, and culturally dissolving. People were ashamed to be Indian. You didn't see the young…
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I went through a real punk stage-I had braids, red hair, pink hair, green hair, I cut it into a…
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I know I look like a piece of sausage to those lions. A sausage with braids.
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The Nile, draining out into the Mediterranean. The bright lights of Cairo announce the opening of the north-flowing river’s delta, with…
— Chris Hadfield
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Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The…
— John Milton
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Iconic clothing has been secularized. . . . A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression;…
— Angela Carter
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As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.
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One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid…
— Russell Banks
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It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are
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Voshak's hair, a pale blond braid, which he bleached, was his trademark. It made him memorable. That's how the slavers…
— Ilona Andrews
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When I'm not working, I spend a lot of time on my hair. When it's time for my hair to…
— Tracee Ellis Ross
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Everything that I have is natural - braid, nails - I practically never use cosmetics. They often ask me in…
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