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Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes

Yevgeny Zamyatin quotes

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

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But still, how could they write whole libraries about someone like Kant and hardly even notice Taylor-that prophet who could see ten centuries ahead? Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin quote: "The moon hangs alien, heavy, like a lock on a door; the door..."
The moon hangs alien, heavy, like a lock on a door; the door is tightly shut. ("The North") Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin quote: "Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of..."
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought. Yevgeny Zamyatin
What's going on? A soul? Did you say, a soul? What the hell! Next thing you know we'll have cholera again. What did I tell you? [He tossed the thin one on his horns.] I told you so... we should operate on all of them, on the imagination. Extirpate the imagination. Surgery's the only answer... nothing but surgery... Yevgeny Zamyatin
N-no-o, all that excitement, it wouldn't reach us,' Timosha spoke gloomily. 'We're like the sunken city of Kitezh, living at the bottom of the lake. We do not hear a thing, and the water over us is muddy and sleepy. And on the surface, way above - why, everything's in flames, and the alarms are ringing.' ?A Provincial Tal?) Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin quote: "You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul."
You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul. Yevgeny Zamyatin
You don't look normal, dear. You look sick. Because sick and not normal are the same thing. You're destroying yourself, and no one is going to tell you that - no one. Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin quote: "You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul."
You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul. Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin quote: "The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very..."
The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening. Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin quote: "She was like a candle that just went out. All the circles that..."
She was like a candle that just went out. All the circles that made her up suddenly got lopsided and warped. Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin quote: "And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the..."
And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential? I know it. Yevgeny Zamyatin
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
During the first firing a dozen or so numbers from the dock neglected to get out of the way - nothing remained of them except some crumbs and soot. Yevgeny Zamyatin
Was it not I who populated with them all these pages—just recently no more than white rectangular deserts? Without me, would they ever be seen by those whom I shall lead behind me along the narrow paths of lines? Yevgeny Zamyatin
The speed of her tongue is not correctly calculated; the speed per second of her toungue should be slightly less than the speed per second of her thoughts -at any rate not the reverse. Yevgeny Zamyatin

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