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Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes

Explosions are not comfortable Picture Quote #1

Literature is painting, architecture, and music Picture Quote #1

You’re in bad shape. It looks like you’re developing a soul Picture Quote #1

Cruel’, O’Kelly laughed, ‘it’s cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God’s mercy, then it’s his gift of making us unable to lie Picture Quote #1

An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis Picture Quote #1

The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms Picture Quote #1

The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality Picture Quote #1

The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love Picture Quote #1

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) Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative Picture Quote #1

...Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative Picture Quote #1

The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers Picture Quote #1

The world is kept alive only by heretics Picture Quote #1

Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children Picture Quote #1

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The art of the word is painting architecture music Picture Quote #1

All women are lips, nothing but lips Picture Quote #1

Sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia Picture Quote #1

The mighty power of logic cleanses all it touches Picture Quote #1

Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith Picture Quote #1

To an artist, creating an image means being in love with it Picture Quote #1

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You’re in bad shape. It looks like you’re developing a soul Picture Quote #1

Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number Picture Quote #1

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought Picture Quote #1

There is no final one; revolutions are infinite Picture Quote #1

Her smile was a bite, and I was its target Picture Quote #1

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom Picture Quote #1

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Explosions are not comfortable (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) Literature is painting, architecture, and music (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) You’re in bad shape. It looks like you’re developing a soul. (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) Cruel’, O’Kelly laughed, ‘it’s cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God’s mercy, then it’s his gift of making us unable to lie. (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) 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 (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms. (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality. (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love. (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) 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). (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) 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. (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative. (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) ...Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative... (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) The world is kept alive only by heretics (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) The art of the word is painting architecture music (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) All women are lips, nothing but lips (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) Sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) The mighty power of logic cleanses all it touches (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) To an artist, creating an image means being in love with it (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) You’re in bad shape. It looks like you’re developing a soul (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) There is no final one; revolutions are infinite (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) Her smile was a bite, and I was its target (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes) The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom (Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes)

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