Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin

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

-Yevgeny Zamyatin-

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

If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

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

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.

Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

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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