More Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin
True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.
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.
The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
Explosions are not comfortable.
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.
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.
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.
