Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• Truth is the first thing that present-day literature lacks. The writer has drowned himself in lies, he is too accustomed to speak prudently, with a careful look over his shoulder.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Lying

• Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . .

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Lying, Knives, Fearless

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.103, Modern Library

• Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wild islanders, they too would only speak the truth until they learned about European culture.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Lying, Animal, Finding Yourself

• The knife is the most durable, immortal, the most genius thing that man created. The knife was the guillotine; the knife is the universal means of solving all knots; and along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox - the single most worthy path of the fearless mind.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Lying, Mean, Men

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.103, Modern Library

• 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.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Lying, Style, Balance

  "Islanders: And, the Fisher of Men". Book by Yevgeny Zamyatin, p.37, January 1, 1985.

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