"We have long become overgrown with calluses; we……" — Yevgeny Zamyatin
"We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X")"
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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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Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount…
— Lee Harvey Oswald
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Blisters are a painful experience, but if you get enough blisters in the same place, they will eventually produce a…
— Unknown Author
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It hurts, but that’s all it does. The most difficult part of the training is training your mind. You build…
— David Goggins
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The only legitimate use for a glove is to cover an injury... A desire to prevent callus formation (possibly so…
— Mark Rippetoe
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One good thing that comes from living the nomadic life demanded by an expedition is that one sheds the fake…
— Karen Hawkins
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When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet.…
— Pamela Stephenson
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The beauty of my body is not measured by the size of the clothes it can fit into, but by…
— Sarah
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Work makes a callus against grief.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When I was younger, my feet would hurt a lot, but you build up calluses and strength and you don't…
— Misty Copeland
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You can tell a lot about a man from his hands. If they don't have any scars or calluses on…
— Ellen Hollman
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
— Wallace Stegner
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She wrote poetry constantly; that was her "work". She was a slow bleeder and she slaved over it for long,…
— Millard Kaufman
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