Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes - Page 3

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• And tomorrow--who knows what happens? Do you get it? I don't know and no one knows--it's all unknown! You understand, that this is the end to the Known? This is the new, the improbable, the unpredictable.

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  Tomorrow, Ends, Unpredictable

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.128, Modern Library

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• 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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  Thinking, Make You Think, Special

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.116, Penguin

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• The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

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  Art, Philosophy, Way

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• The purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it.

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  Art, Purpose, Organize

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• And a question stirred within me: What if he, this yellow-eyed creature, in his disorderly, filthy mound of leaves, in his uncomputed life, is happier than we are?

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  Yellow, What If, Life Is

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• Name me the final number, the highest, the greatest. But that's absurd! If the number of numbers is infinite, how can there be a final number? Then how can you speak of a final revolution? There is no final one. Revolutions are infinite.

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  Inspirational, Art, Names

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• 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.

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  Tongue, Speed, Should

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• Midsummer Night was roasting hot. The shore, of red granite, glowed with the heat; the dark blood of the earth seemed to be rising from below. There was a sharp, unbearable smell of birds, of cod, of green decaying seaweed. Through the mist the huge ruddy sun loomed nearer and nearer. And in the sea, dark blood welled up to meet it - in bloated, rearing, huge white waves. Night. The mouth of the bay between two cliffs was like a window. A window shutting out curious eyes with a white shade-white woolly fog. And all that you could see was that behind it something red was happening. (The North)

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  Eye, Dark, Night

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• The mighty power of logic cleanses all it touches.

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  Logic

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• 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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  Art, Emotional, Self

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• 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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  Girl, Night, Long

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• What is it to you if I don't want others to want for me, if I want to want myself - if I want the impossible.

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  Want, Impossible, Ifs

  Yevgeny Zamyatin “We”, Two-Gunner Pulp Press

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• Her smile was a bite, and I was its target.

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  Target, Her Smile, Bites

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.34, Penguin

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• The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage.

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  Past, Today, Description

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2010). “We: Introduction by Will Self”, p.16, Random House

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• Revolution is everywhere, in everything. It is infinite. There is no final revolution, no final number. The social revolution is only one of an infinite number of numbers: the law of revolution is not a social law, but an immeasurably greater one. It is a cosmic, universal law - like the laws of the conservation of energy and of the dissipation of energy (entropy).

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  Inspirational, Art, Law

  "A Soviet Heretic : Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin". 1970.

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• We appeal, not to those who reject today in the name of a return to yesterday, not to those who are hopelessly deafened by today; we appeal to those who see the distant tomorrow -- and judge today in the name of tomorrow.

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  Names, Yesterday, Judging

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• The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need for the coercive power of the state.

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  Inspirational, Art, Order

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• The moon ... is a mad woman holding up her dress So that her white belly shines. Haughty, Impregnable, Ridiculous, Silent and white as a debauched queen.

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  Queens, Moon, White

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• 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.

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  Lying, Animal, Finding Yourself

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• By complex ways, by looking deep into the dark well of the human soul, full of filth, somewhere at the very bottom of it Chekhov at last found his faith. And this faith turned out to be faith in man, in the power of human progress. And man became his god.

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  Inspirational, Art, Dark

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• The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself.

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  Men, Erring, Ancient

  "We". Book by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1921.

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

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  Inspirational, Art, Men

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• All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.

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  Forever, Gold, Complexity

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2010). “We: Introduction by Will Self”, p.61, Random House

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• Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?

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  Happiness, Envy, Bliss

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2015). “We”, p.21, HarperCollins

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• 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.

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  Hate, Stronger

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2015). “We: With Introduction, Summary and Analysis”

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