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Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes

Yevgeny Zamyatin quotes about lies

Russian Novelist, Writer February 1, 1884 – March 10, 1937

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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
Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie. Yevgeny Zamyatin
The knife is the most durable, immortal, the most genius thing that man created. The knife was the guillotine; the knife is the universal means of solving all knots; and along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox - the single most worthy path of the fearless mind. Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin quote: "Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single..."
Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . . Yevgeny Zamyatin
Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wild islanders, they too would only speak the truth until they learned about European culture. Yevgeny Zamyatin

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