Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes

• True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.

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  Inspirational, Art, Dreamer

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.6, Modern Library

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• The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers.

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  Inspiración, espiritualidad, arte

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• It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in search, in questions, in torment.

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  Mistake, Writing, Errors

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.10, Modern Library

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• You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.

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  Soul, Looks, Shapes

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.86, Penguin

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• Si no tenemos herejes, debemos inventarlos, pues la herejía es esencial para la salud y el crecimiento.

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  Growth, Essentials, Literature

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• Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

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  Bitterness, Entropy, Remedy

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

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• We have lived through the epoch of suppression of the masses; we are living in an epoch of suppression of the individual in the name of the masses; tomorrow will bring the liberation of the individual - in the name of man.

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  Inspirational, Art, Men

  "A Soviet Heretic: Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin". Book edited and translated by Mirra Ginsburg, "Tomorrow" (1919), 1970.

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• Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Literature, Architecture, Painting

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• Individual consciousness is just sickness.

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  Consciousness, Sickness, Individual

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2010). “We: Introduction by Will Self”, p.113, Random House

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• Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

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  Two, Choices, Alternatives

  "We". Book by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1921.

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• Explosions are not comfortable.

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  Preparation, Explosions, Comfortable

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• There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.

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  Finals, Revolution, Infinite

  Yevgeny Zamyatin “We”, Two-Gunner Pulp Press

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• The flame will cool tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow.... But someone must see this already today, and speak heretically today about tomorrow. Heretics are the only (bitter) remedy against the entropy of human thought.

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  Inspirational, Art, Flames

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

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• I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.

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  Inspirational, Art, Literature

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• Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.

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  Children, Philosophy, Naked

  "On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters" by Yevgeny Zamyatin, translated by Mirra Ginsburg, in "A Soviet Heretic : Essays" by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1970), 1923.

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• There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.

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  Fear, Book, Differences

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• Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.

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  Infalibilidad

  "We". Book by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924.

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• There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.

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  Inspirational, Art, Past

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• Un hombre es como una novela: hasta la última página no sabes cómo acabará. Si no, no valdría la pena leerla.

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  Reading, Men, People

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• Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken - errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs.

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  Inspirational, Art, Philosophy

  "On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters " by Yevgeny Zamyatin. As translated by Mirra Ginsburg, in "A Soviet Heretic : Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin", 1923.

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• Todas las verdades son erróneas. Esta es la esencia misma del proceso dialéctico: las verdades de hoy se convierten en errores mañana; no hay un número final. Esta verdad (la única) es sólo para los fuertes. Las mentes débiles insisten en un universo finito, en un último número; necesitan, en palabras de Nietzsche, "las muletas de la certeza". Los débiles nerviosos carecen de la fuerza necesaria para incluirse en el silogismo dialéctico.

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  Inspirational, Art, Strong

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• Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.

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  Children, Brave, Philosopher

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• Knowledge! What does that mean? Your knowledge is nothing but cowardice. No, really, that's all it is. You just want to put a little wall around infinity. And you're afraid to look on the other side of that wall.

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  Wall, Knowledge, Mean

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.52, Penguin

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• Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.

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  World, Hunger, Masters

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• You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.

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  Soul, Way

  Yevgeny Zamyatin “We”, Two-Gunner Pulp Press

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