The knife is the most durable, immortal, the most genius thing that man created. The knife was the guillotine; the knife is the universal means of solving all knots; and along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox – the single most worthy path of the fearless mind.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes

What is the matter -a soul? You say a soul? Oh, damn it! We may soon retrogress even to the cholera epidemics.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Final things are for children, because infinity scares children, and it is important that children sleep peacefully at night.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

And that was when I learned from my own experience that a laugh can be a terrifying weapon. With a laugh you can kill even murder itself.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I bent down to I-330 and drank her in with my eyes for the last time.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Without her the sun of tomorrow will be merely a tin circle, and the sky, tin painted blue, and I myself.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The same joy is in a stone which, thrown aloft, hesitates a little at the height of its flight and then rushes down to the ground. It is the same with a man when in his final convulsion he takes a last deep breath and dies.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

To feel one’s self, to be conscious of one’s personality, is the lot of an eye inflamed by a cinder, or an infected finger, or a bad tooth. A healthy eye, or finger, or tooth is not felt; it is nonexistent, as it were. Is it not clear, then, that consciousness of oneself is a sickness? Apparently.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

And, like children, you will swallow without protest everything bitter I shall give you only when it is carefully coated with the thick syrup of adventure.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

We must all go insane – as soon as possible go insane.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

How awful for you! By the looks of it, you’ve developed a soul.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Beauty? Why is the dance beautiful? Answer: Because this is a non-free movement, because the whole deep meaning of dance is in absolute, aesthetic subordination, ideal unfreedom.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

What is it that people beg for, dream about, torment themselves for, from the time they leave swaddling clothes? They want someone to tell them, once and for all, what happiness is – and then to bind them to that happiness with a chain.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Un medic adevarat incepe sa-l trateze pe om cand acesta e inca sanatos, cand omul se va imbolnavi abia maine, poimaine, peste o saptamana.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Even among the ancients, the most mature among them knew that the source of right is might; that right is a function of power. And so, we have the scales: on one side, a grain, on the other a ton; on one side “I,” on the other “We,” the One State. Is it not clear, then, that to assume that the “I” can have some “rights” in relation to the State is exactly like assuming that a gram can balance the scale against the ton? Hence, the division: rights to the ton, duties to the gram.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

And tomorrow... what? Nobody knows. You understand? Neither I nor anyone else knows. It’s unknown. You understand it’s come to an end, everything that was known? Now it’ll be new, never before seen or imagined.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

My heart was light, quick, like an aero, and carrying, carrying me upward. I knew: tomorrow held some sort of joy. But what would it be?

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

One loves only the things one cannot conquer.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

One must remember that mathematics is like death, never makes mistakes, never plays tricks. If we are unable to see those irrational curves or solids, it only means that they inevitably possess a whole immense world somewhere beneath the surface of our life...

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

This woman was just as irritating to me as an irrational term that accidently creeps into your equation and can’t be factored out.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Forget that you’re a gram and feel yourself a millionth part of a ton.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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