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Yevgeny Zamyatin
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“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.”
“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.”
“There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.”
“You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.”
“And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.”
“...Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative...”
“I am aware of myself. And, of course, the only things that are aware of themselves and conscious of their individuality are irritated eyes, cut fingers, sore teeth. A healthy eye, finger, tooth might as well not even be there. Isn't it clear that individual consciousness is just sickness?”
“The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.”
“Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.”
“Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter - even murder itself.”
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