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More Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin
There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.
Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.
A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.
Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in search, in questions, in torment.
Knowledge! What does that mean? Your knowledge is nothing but cowardice. No, really, that's all it is. You just want to put a little wall around infinity. And you're afraid to look on the other side of that wall.
Explosions are not comfortable.
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.
The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
