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True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.
― Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Inspirational
Art
Dreamer
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.
― Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Mistake
Writing
Errors
Explosions are not comfortable.
― Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Preparation
Explosions
Comfortable
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
― Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Bitterness
Entropy
Remedy
You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.
― Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Soul
Looks
Shapes
I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.
― Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Inspirational
Art
Literature
Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
― Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Two
Choices
Alternatives
You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.
― Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Soul
Way
There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.
― Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Finals
Revolution
Infinite
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
― Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Growth
Essentials
Literature
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.
― Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Children
Philosophy
Naked
Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.
― Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Children
Brave
Philosopher
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.
― Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Inspirational
Art
Men
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.
― Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Fear
Book
Differences
All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number. This truth (the only one) is for the strong alone. Weak-nerved minds insist on a finite universe, a last number; they need, in Nietzsche's words, "the crutches of certainty". The weak-nerved lack the strength to include themselves in the dialectic syllogism.
― Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Inspirational
Art
Strong
Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken - errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs.
― Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Inspirational
Art
Philosophy
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.
― Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Wall
Knowledge
Mean
Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.
― Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Infallibility
There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.
― Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Inspirational
Art
Past
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.
― Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Reading
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