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Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes

Yevgeny Zamyatin quotes

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

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The wind blew through the window. The trousers swayed. Doubtless when they were on Mr. Craggs, the trousers looked splendid and went perfectly well together with his body. But like this, isolated in space, Mr. Cragg's trousers were nightmarish. The wind blew through the window. As they swayed, the trousers were alive. A shot, truncated, square creature consisting entirely of legs, belly and what went with them. And now it would get down and start walking among people and over people and... Yevgeny Zamyatin
Well, fallen angel. Now you're quite ruined," she said, reverting to the formal you. "No, aren't you afraid? Well, goodbye! You'll get back on your own, right? Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin quote: "The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization..."
The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy. Yevgeny Zamyatin
The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality. Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin quote: "I stopped and listened. But all I could hear was.. a kind of..."
I stopped and listened. But all I could hear was.. a kind of thudding, and not in me but somewhere near me... my heart. Yevgeny Zamyatin
Do you believe that you will die? Yes, man is mortal, I am a man, ergo... No, that isn't what I mean. I know that you know that. What I'm asking is: Have you ever actually believed it, believe it completely, believe not with your mind but with your body, actually felt that one day the fingers now holding this very piece of paper will be yellow and icy...? Yevgeny Zamyatin
The only reason I'm writing this down is to show how human reason, even very sharp and exact human reason, can get crazily confused and thrown off the track. Yevgeny Zamyatin
But you can't plead with autumn. No. The midnight wind stalked through the woods, hooted to frighten you, swept everything away for the approaching winter, whirled the leaves. ("The North") Yevgeny Zamyatin
A person is like a novel: Up to the very last page you don't know how it's going to end. Otherwise, there'd be no point in reading... Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin quote: "The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom."
The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom. Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin quote: "Everything used to revolve around the sun; now I knew it all..."
Everything used to revolve around the sun; now I knew it all revolved around me-slowly, blissfully, squinting its eyes. Yevgeny Zamyatin
Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers will always be children. So you're right, it's a child's question, just as it should be. Yevgeny Zamyatin
He plashed away, like paddles on water, toward the door, and every step he made returned to me gradually my feet, my hands, my fingers. My soul again spread equally throughout my body. I was able to breathe. Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin quote: "knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"
knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith Yevgeny Zamyatin
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

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