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More Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin
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.
You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.
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.
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.
Explosions are not comfortable.
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.
Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.
