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Yevgeny Zamyatin

The sun's champagne streamed ...

The sun's champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of the grass, covered by a raspberry umbrella. Only their feet and a little bit of lace could be seen. In the magnificent universe beneath the raspberry umbrella, with closed eyes, they drank in the sparkling madness. 'Extra! Extra! Zeppelins over the North Sea at 3 o'clock.' But under the umbrella, in the raspberry universe, they were immortal. What did it matter that in another far-away universe people would be killing each other?

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Yevgeny Zamyatin

The literature of the immedia...

The literature of the immediate future will inevitably turn away from painting, whether respectably realistic or modern, and from daily life, whether old or the very latest and revolutionary, and turn to artistically realized philosophy.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin

It is the specialist's task t...

It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers, thousands of kilometers. The organizing role of art consists of infecting the reader, of arousing him with pathos or irony -- the cathode and anode in literature. But irony that is measured in centimeters is pathetic, and centimeter-sized pathos is ridiculous. No one can be carried away by it. To stir the reader, the artist must speak not of means but of ends, of the great goal toward which mankind is moving.

Yevgeny Zamyatin 151 quotes
Yevgeny Zamyatin

The mighty power of logic cle...

The mighty power of logic cleanses all it touches.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin

In adopting the form of the a...

In adopting the form of the adventure novel, Wells deepened it, raised its intellectual value, and brought into it elements of social philosophy and science. In his own field - though, of course, on a proportionately lesser scale - Wells may be likened to Dostoyevsky, who took the form of the cheap detective novel and infused it with brilliant psychological analysis.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin

At night numbers must sleep; ...

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.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin

It is said there are flowers ...

It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this "once in a thousand years" has come today.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin

Let the answers be wrong, let...

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.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin

The only means of ridding man...

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin

What makes you think that non...

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.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin

Literature is painting, archi...

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin

I am aware of myself. And, of...

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 151 quotes
Yevgeny Zamyatin

Love and hunger rule the worl...

Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin

How do you know that nonsense...

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.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin

Only lifeless mechanisms move...

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.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin

The flame will cool tomorrow,...

The flame will cool tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow.... But someone must see this already today, and speak heretically today about tomorrow. Heretics are the only (bitter) remedy against the entropy of human thought.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin

Along the blade of a knife li...

Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . .

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Yevgeny Zamyatin

The nights were long, like th...

The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")

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Yevgeny Zamyatin

There is no joy nobler than s...

There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin

What the self-styled modern a...

What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturabtion … whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.

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