Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes - Page 4

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• The world is kept alive only by heretics.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Alive

  As translated in A Soviet Heretic : Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1970) edited and translated by Mirra Ginsburg, 1919.

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• The highly complex, almost mathematical, nature of music creates for it an ironclad protection against the microbes of dilletantism, which penetrate much more easily into the fields of painting, literature, and the theater.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Literature

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• Only the rational and useful is beautiful.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Beauty, Beautiful, Rational

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• There are two generic and invariable features that characterize utopias. One is the content: the authors of utopias paint what they consider to be ideal societies; translating this into the language of mathematics, we might say that utopias bear a + sign. The other feature, organically growing out of the content, is to be found in the form: a utopia is always static; it is always descriptive and has no, of almost no, plot dynamics.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Two

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• To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or another.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Adventure

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• The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife is a universal means of resolving all knots.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Mean, Science, Men

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.107, Penguin

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• The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Tongue, Reverse, Ought

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.9, Modern Library

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• An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Truth

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• 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.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Philosophy

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

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Lying, Knives, Fearless

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.103, Modern Library

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• In order to write about the machine you have to know it, to live with it, to love it (or hate it). I think that true writing could be done on industrial subjects by people who work in industry, who are firmly linked with it. But ... and here is the opposite 'but', the technology of literary craftsmanship is itself a very fine and complex matter. Qualified specialists from industry prove themselves dilettantes in the field of literature. The needed synthesis is not yet in sight.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Hate

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• Sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Issues, Morality, Court

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• She moved nearer, leaned her shoulder against me — and we were one, and something flowed from her into me, and I knew: this is how it must be. I knew it with every nerve, and every hair, every heartbeat, so sweet it verged on pain. And what joy to submit to this 'must'. A piece of iron must feel such joy as it submits to the precise, inevitable law that draws it to a magnet. Or a stone, thrown up, hesitating a moment, then plunging headlong back to earth. Or a man, after the final agony, taking a last deep breath — and dying.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Sweet, Pain, Men

  Yevgeny Zamyatin “We”, Two-Gunner Pulp Press

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• It has never occurred to me before, but this is truly how it is: all of us on earth walk constantly over a seething, scarlet sea of flame, hidden below, in the belly of the earth. We never think of it. But what if the thin crust under our feet should turn into glass and we should suddenly see?

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Thinking, Glasses, Flames

  "We". Book by Yevgeny Zamyatin, D-503, 1921.

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• Philosophers of genius, children, and the people are equally wise - because they ask equally foolish questions. Foolish to a civilized man who has a well-furnished European apartment with an excellent toilet and a well-furnished dogma.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Wise, Art

  "A Soviet Heretic: Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin". Book edited and translated by Mirra Ginsburg, 1970.

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

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Men

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• The moon, our own, earthly moon is bitterly lonely, because it is alone in the sky, always alone, and there is no one to turn to, no one to turn to it. All it can do is ache across the weightless airy ice, across thousands of versts, toward those who are equally lonely on earth, and listen to the endless howling of dogs. (“A Story About The Most Important Thing”)

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Dog, Lonely, Moon

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• 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.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Sleep, Night, Numbers

  Yevgeny Zamyatin “We”, Two-Gunner Pulp Press

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• The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the time being.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Struggle

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• Life itself today has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates of Einstein, of revolution. In this new projection, the best-known formulas and objects become displaced, fantastic, familiar-unfamiliar. This is why it is so logical for literature today to be drawn to the fantastic plot, or to an amalgam of reality and fantasy.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Reality

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• 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

  Fall, Autumn, Winter

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• They do not need the sun. Who needs the sun when the eyes glow? Darkness. A woolen fog has wrapped the earth, has dropped a heavy curtain. From far away, from beyond the curtain, comes the sound of drops falling on stone. Far, far away - the autumn, people, tomorrow. ("The North")

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Fall, Eye, Autumn

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• 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.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Philosophy

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• The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Writing

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• 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?

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Couple, Eye, Sea

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