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Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes

You’re in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul Picture Quote #1

What primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about Picture Quote #1

If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth Picture Quote #1

At night numbers must sleep; it is their duty, just as it is their duty to work in the daytime. Not sleeping at night is a criminal offense Picture Quote #1

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue Picture Quote #1

Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one Picture Quote #1

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I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a minute, melted metal will begin to drip and everything will turn to nothing. Quick: get cold water, logic. I am pouring it over myself by the bucketload but the logic sizzles on the hot bearings and dissipates elusive white steam into the air Picture Quote #1

All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words Picture Quote #1

True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you; you hate it because you are afraid of it; you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved Picture Quote #1

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$Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? Picture Quote #1$

... Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative Picture Quote #1

It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love for man Picture Quote #1

I am aware of myself. And, of course, the only things that are aware of themselves and conscious of their individuality are irritated eyes, cut fingers, sore teeth. A healthy eye, finger, tooth might as well not even be there. Isn’t it clear that individual consciousness is just sickness? Picture Quote #1

I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else’s Picture Quote #1

How do you know that nonsense isn’t a good thing? If human nonsense had been nurtured and developed for centuries, just as intelligence has, then perhaps something extraordinarily precious could have come from it Picture Quote #1

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And why do you think that foolishness is bad? If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious Picture Quote #1

All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today’s truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number Picture Quote #1

The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse Picture Quote #1

There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger Picture Quote #1

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The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man’s creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife is a universal means of resolving all knots Picture Quote #1

What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they’d nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they did intelligence, it might have turned into something of special value Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy Picture Quote #1

The purpose of art... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it Picture Quote #1

Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one given form and one philosophy: that which is canonized quickly dies of obesity, of entropy Picture Quote #1

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You’re in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) What primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) At night numbers must sleep; it is their duty, just as it is their duty to work in the daytime. Not sleeping at night is a criminal offense (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a minute, melted metal will begin to drip and everything will turn to nothing. Quick: get cold water, logic. I am pouring it over myself by the bucketload but the logic sizzles on the hot bearings and dissipates elusive white steam into the air (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you; you hate it because you are afraid of it; you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) ... Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love for man (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) I am aware of myself. And, of course, the only things that are aware of themselves and conscious of their individuality are irritated eyes, cut fingers, sore teeth. A healthy eye, finger, tooth might as well not even be there. Isn’t it clear that individual consciousness is just sickness? (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else’s (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) How do you know that nonsense isn’t a good thing? If human nonsense had been nurtured and developed for centuries, just as intelligence has, then perhaps something extraordinarily precious could have come from it (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) And why do you think that foolishness is bad? If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today’s truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) 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 Quotes) Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man’s creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife is a universal means of resolving all knots (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they’d nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they did intelligence, it might have turned into something of special value (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) 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 Quotes) The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) The purpose of art... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one given form and one philosophy: that which is canonized quickly dies of obesity, of entropy (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes)

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