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More Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin
There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.
There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.
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.
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.
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?
Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")
You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.