"True literature can exist only where it is……" — Yevgeny Zamyatin
"True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics."
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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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The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.
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I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never…
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
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Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
— Saint Augustine
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
— Saint Augustine
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Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they…
— Teresa of Avila
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and…
— Sai Baba
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Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of…
— Sai Baba
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All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics…
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Mitt Romney understands the private sector, he understands how profit is created, and he isn't embarrassed by it.
— Michele Bachmann
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Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place…
— Michael Badnarik
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St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to…
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