More Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin
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.
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
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.
Explosions are not comfortable.
Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.
You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.
There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.
Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.
The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.
