Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes - Page 5

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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?

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  Couple, Eye, Sea

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• The world is kept alive only by heretics.

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  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 lilac branches are bowed under the weight of the flowers: blooming is hard, and the most important thing is - to bloom. (“A Story About The Most Important Thing”)

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  Flower, Important, Blooming

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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.

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  Lying, Style, Balance

  "Islanders: And, the Fisher of Men". Book by Yevgeny Zamyatin, p.37, January 1, 1985.

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• The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love. In the morning mist, hazy and amorous, London was delirious. London squinted as it floated along, milky pink, without caring where it was going.

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  Morning, Being In Love, Caring

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

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  Inspirational, Art, Writing

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• It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers, thousands of kilometers. The organizing role of art consists of infecting the reader, of arousing him with pathos or irony -- the cathode and anode in literature. But irony that is measured in centimeters is pathetic, and centimeter-sized pathos is ridiculous. No one can be carried away by it. To stir the reader, the artist must speak not of means but of ends, of the great goal toward which mankind is moving.

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  Inspirational, Art, Moving

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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.

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  Tongue, Reverse, Ought

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

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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.

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  Inspirational, Art, Literature

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• We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X")

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  Long, People, Calluses

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• When we remove the snowdrift piled up over Chekhov in recent years, we uncover a man profoundly agitated by social problems; a writer whose social ideals are the same as those we live by; a philosophy of the divinity of man, of fervent faith in man - the faith that moves mountains.

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  Inspirational, Art, Philosophy

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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.

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  Mean, Science, Men

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

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• It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this "once in a thousand years" has come today.

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  Love, Flower, Years

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• O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a wild animal only when he build the first wall. Men ceased to be a wild man only when we built the Green Wall, only when, by means of that wall, we isolated our perfect machine world from the irrational, ugly world of trees, birds, and animals.

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  Wall, Mean, Men

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• Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number.

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  Numbers, Finals, Revolution

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• What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons... we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless "Why?" and "What next?".

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  Inspirational, Art, Fearless

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