We comes from God, I from the Devil.
Yevgeny ZamyatinWas it not I who populated with them all these pages—just recently no more than white rectangular deserts? Without me, would they ever be seen by those whom I shall lead behind me along the narrow paths of lines?
Yevgeny ZamyatinThe only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
Yevgeny ZamyatinTags: freedom
You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.
Yevgeny ZamyatinTags: soul-freedom-melancholy
...Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative...
Yevgeny ZamyatinTags: freedom-happiness-paradise
All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.
Yevgeny ZamyatinTags: inspirational
Listen." I tugged at my neighbor. "Just listen to me! You must-you must give me an answer: out there, where your finite universe ends! What is out there, beyond it?
Yevgeny ZamyatinYesterday, there was a Tzar and there were slaves. Today, there is no Tzar, but the slaves are still here. Tomorrow there will be only Tzars. We walk forward in the name of the free man of tomorrow, the Tzar of tomorrow. We have gone through the epoch when the masses were oppressed. We are now going through the epoch when the individual is oppressed in the name of the masses.
Yevgeny ZamyatinDuring the first firing a dozen or so numbers from the dock neglected to get out of the way - nothing remained of them except some crumbs and soot.
Yevgeny ZamyatinAnd a question stirred within me: What if he, this yellow-eyed creature, in his disorderly, filthy mound of leaves, in his uncomputed life, is happier than we are?
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