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More Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin
You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
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 only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")
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.
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.
There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.
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.
