Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes - Page 3

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• What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturabtion … whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.

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  Art, Emotional, Self

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• Her smile was a bite, and I was its target.

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  Target, Her Smile, Bites

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.34, Penguin

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• All women are lips, nothing but lips.

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  Lips

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.73, Penguin

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• The mighty power of logic cleanses all it touches.

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  Logic

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• The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage.

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  Past, Today, Description

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2010). “We: Introduction by Will Self”, p.16, Random House

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Art, Lying

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• Revolution is everywhere, in everything. It is infinite. There is no final revolution, no final number. The social revolution is only one of an infinite number of numbers: the law of revolution is not a social law, but an immeasurably greater one. It is a cosmic, universal law - like the laws of the conservation of energy and of the dissipation of energy (entropy).

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  Inspirational, Art, Law

  "A Soviet Heretic : Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin". 1970.

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• 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.

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  Lying, Mean, Men

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

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• We appeal, not to those who reject today in the name of a return to yesterday, not to those who are hopelessly deafened by today; we appeal to those who see the distant tomorrow -- and judge today in the name of tomorrow.

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  Names, Yesterday, Judging

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• The moon ... is a mad woman holding up her dress So that her white belly shines. Haughty, Impregnable, Ridiculous, Silent and white as a debauched queen.

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  Queens, Moon, White

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• 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.

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  Lying, Animal, Finding Yourself

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• By complex ways, by looking deep into the dark well of the human soul, full of filth, somewhere at the very bottom of it Chekhov at last found his faith. And this faith turned out to be faith in man, in the power of human progress. And man became his god.

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  Inspirational, Art, Dark

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• And why do you think that foolishness is bad? If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious.

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  Thinking, Century, Humans

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• The purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it.

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  Art, Purpose, Organize

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• The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself.

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  Men, Erring, Ancient

  "We". Book by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1921.

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• To the feudal aristocracy and the aristocracy of the spirit, nobility derives from diametrically opposite sources. The glory of the feudal aristocrat is in being a link in the longest possible chain of ancestors. The glory of the aristocrat of the spirit is in having no ancestors - or having as few as possible. If an artist is his own ancestor, if he has only descendents, he enters history as a genius; if he has few ancestors, or is related to them distantly, he enters history as a talent.

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  Inspirational, Art, Opposites

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• Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.

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  America, Track, Poetry

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2010). “We: Introduction by Will Self”, p.59, Random House

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• It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love for man.

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  Inspirational, Art, Men

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• All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.

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  Forever, Gold, Complexity

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2010). “We: Introduction by Will Self”, p.61, Random House

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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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  Art, Philosophy, Way

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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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  Happiness, Envy, Bliss

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2015). “We”, p.21, HarperCollins

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• You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you; you hate it because you are afraid of it; you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved.

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  Hate, Stronger

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2015). “We: With Introduction, Summary and Analysis”

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• The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse.

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  Tongue, Reverse, Ought

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.9, Modern Library

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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; the knife is a universal means of resolving all knots.

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  Mean, Science, Men

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.107, Penguin

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• What is it to you if I don't want others to want for me, if I want to want myself - if I want the impossible.

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  Want, Impossible, Ifs

  Yevgeny Zamyatin “We”, Two-Gunner Pulp Press

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