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More Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin
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.
We have lived through the epoch of suppression of the masses; we are living in an epoch of suppression of the individual in the name of the masses; tomorrow will bring the liberation of the individual - in the name of man.
Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.
True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.
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.
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.
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.
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.
