Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin

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Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy") — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Literature is painting, architecture, and music. — Yevgeny Zamyatin
We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal") — Yevgeny Zamyatin
The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy. — Yevgeny Zamyatin
I walked alone through the twilit street. The wind was whirling, driving, carrying me like a slip of paper. Fragments of — Yevgeny Zamyatin
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth. — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Life itself has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinat — Yevgeny Zamyatin
But if I am not a criminal, I beg to be permitted to go abroad with my wife temporarily, for at least one year, with the — Yevgeny Zamyatin
What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons; we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most f — Yevgeny Zamyatin
The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number. — Yevgeny Zamyatin
And how can there be a final revolution? There is no final one. The number of revolutions is infinite. — Yevgeny Zamyatin
I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a minute, melted metal wi — Yevgeny Zamyatin