Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes - Page 2

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• I am aware of myself. And, of course, the only things that are aware of themselves and conscious of their individuality are irritated eyes, cut fingers, sore teeth. A healthy eye, finger, tooth might as well not even be there. Isn't it clear that individual consciousness is just sickness?

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  Eye, Cutting, Healthy

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.113, Modern Library

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• We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")

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  Goal, Needs, Fear Nothing

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• The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love.

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  Love, Things In Life, Kind

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• All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.

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  Truth, Errors, Essence

  "On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters" by Yevgeny Zamyatin, translated by Mirra Ginsburg, in "A Soviet Heretic : Essays" by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1970), 1923.

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• Crossing out is an art that is, perhaps, even more difficult than writing. It requires the sharpest eye to decide what is superfluous and must be removed. And it requires ruthlessness toward yourself -- the greatest ruthlessness and self-sacrifice. You must know how to sacrifice parts in the name of the whole.

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  Inspirational, Art, Writing

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• Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.

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  Squares, Roots, World

  Yevgeny Zamyatin “We”, Two-Gunner Pulp Press

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• I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a minute, melted metal will begin to drip and everything will turn to nothing. Quick: get cold water, logic. I am pouring it over myself by the bucketload but the logic sizzles on the hot bearings and dissipates elusive white steam into the air.

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  White, Air, Water

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.119, Modern Library

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• And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.

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  Mind, Essentials, Knows

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• I've read and heard a lot of unbelievable stuff about those times when people lived in freedom -- that is, in disorganized wildness.

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  Freedom, People, Stuff

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.30, Penguin

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• Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter - even murder itself.

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  Laughter, Eye, Weapons

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.184, Modern Library

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• The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.

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  Reality, Men, Doubt

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• We comes from God, I from the Devil.

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  Devil

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.115, Penguin

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• The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy...

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  Alive, World, Copernicus

  "Tomorrow" by Yevgeny Zamyatin, translated by Mirra Ginsburg in "A Soviet Heretic : Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin" (1970), 1919.

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• And a question stirred within me: What if he, this yellow-eyed creature, in his disorderly, filthy mound of leaves, in his uncomputed life, is happier than we are?

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  Yellow, What If, Life Is

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• How do you know that nonsense isn't a good thing? If human nonsense had been nurtured and developed for centuries, just as intelligence has, then perhaps something extraordinarily precious could have come from it.

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  Nonsense, Good Things, Century

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.115, Modern Library

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• And happiness...Well, after all, desires torment us, don't they? And, clearly, happiness is when there are no more desires, not one...What a mistake, what ridiculous prejudice it's been to have marked happiness always with a plus sign. Absolute happiness should, of course, carry a minus sign — the divine minus.

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  Mistake, Desire, Prejudice

  Yevgeny Zamyatin “We”, Two-Gunner Pulp Press

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• The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening.

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  World, Born, Ripening

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2010). “We: Introduction by Will Self”, p.64, Random House

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• The myth about the angel who rebelled against his Lord is the most beautiful of all myths, the proudest, the most revolutionary, the most immortal of them all.

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  Inspirational, Beautiful, Art

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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 way they did intelligence, it might have turned into something of special value.

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  Thinking, Make You Think, Special

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.116, Penguin

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• And tomorrow--who knows what happens? Do you get it? I don't know and no one knows--it's all unknown! You understand, that this is the end to the Known? This is the new, the improbable, the unpredictable.

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  Tomorrow, Ends, Unpredictable

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.128, Modern Library

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• Name me the final number, the highest, the greatest. But that's absurd! If the number of numbers is infinite, how can there be a final number? Then how can you speak of a final revolution? There is no final one. Revolutions are infinite.

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  Inspirational, Art, Names

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• The speed of her tongue is not correctly calculated; the speed per second of her toungue should be slightly less than the speed per second of her thoughts -at any rate not the reverse.

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  Tongue, Speed, Should

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• Every artist of importance creates his own world, with its own laws - creates and shapes it in his own shape and image, and no one else's. This is why it is difficult to fit the artist into a world that has already been created, a seven-day, fixed and solidified world: he will inevitably slip out of the set of laws and paragraphs, he will be a heretic.

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  Inspirational, Art, Law

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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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  World, Hunger, Masters

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• Midsummer Night was roasting hot. The shore, of red granite, glowed with the heat; the dark blood of the earth seemed to be rising from below. There was a sharp, unbearable smell of birds, of cod, of green decaying seaweed. Through the mist the huge ruddy sun loomed nearer and nearer. And in the sea, dark blood welled up to meet it - in bloated, rearing, huge white waves. Night. The mouth of the bay between two cliffs was like a window. A window shutting out curious eyes with a white shade-white woolly fog. And all that you could see was that behind it something red was happening. (The North)

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  Eye, Dark, Night

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