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.
Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative. - Yevgeny Zamyatin
Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
- Yevgeny Zamyatin
I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's. - Yevgeny Zamyatin
I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.
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 als… - Yevgeny Zamyatin
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 als…
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 infi… - Yevgeny Zamyatin
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 infi…
There is no final one; revolutions are infinite. - Yevgeny Zamyatin
There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.
You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul. - Yevgeny Zamyatin
You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.
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. - Yevgeny Zamyatin
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
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 … - Yevgeny Zamyatin
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 …
Login to join the discussion
Login to join the discussion