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“How awful for you! By the looks of it, you've developed a soul.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“There were two in paradise and the choice was offered to them: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. No other choice. Tertium non datur. They, fools that they were, chose freedom.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“And it seems to me that everyone is like me—they're all afraid of the slightest movement . . . Everyone's sitting all closed up in his own glass cage waiting for something.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“What's going on? A soul? Did you say, a soul? What the hell! Next thing you know we'll have cholera again. What did I tell you? [He tossed the thin one on his horns.] I told you so... we should operate on all of them, on the imagination. Extirpate the imagination. Surgery's the only answer... nothing but surgery...”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“But still, how could they write whole libraries about someone like Kant and hardly even notice Taylor-that prophet who could see ten centuries ahead?”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“دیوار بزرگ‌ترین�� تمام اختراع‌ها�� بشر است. انسان تازه بعد از ساختن نخستین دیوار از سرشت وحشی و حیوانی‌ا�� فاصله گرفت.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“Я верю �� вы поймете, что мне так трудно писать, как никогда ни одному автору на протяжении всей человеческой истории: одни писали для современников, другие �� для потомков, но никто никогда не писал для предков или существ, подобных их диким, отдаленным предкам...”
― Евгений Иванович Замятин, Мы

“Do enamorado sussuro das ondas, nós extraímos eletricidade; dessa fera brava que se desfaz em espuma fizemos um animal doméstico e, pelo mesmo método, domesticamos e submetemos o elemento bárbaro da poesia. Doravante, a poesia não é já o imperdoável trinado do rouxinol; a poesia é um serviço estatal, a poesia é utilidade.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“... viteza pe secunda a limbii trebuie sa fie intotdeauna ceva mai mica decat viteza pe secunda a gandirii, in nici un caz invers.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“But this is not your fault—you are sick. The name of this sickness is IMAGINATION.  It is a worm that gnaws out black lines on the forehead. It is a fever that drives you to escape ever farther, even if this "farther" begins where happiness ends.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“here they loved "just because”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“I am imprudent, I am sick, I have a soul, I am a microbe. But isn't blooming a sickness? Doesn't it hurt when a bud splits open?”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

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

“A human being is like a novel: until the last page you don't know how it will end. Or it wouldn't be worth reading.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, WE

“The speed of a tongue should always go some seconds behind the speed of thought, never the other way around.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, WE

“You will place the benevolent yoke of reason on the necks of the unknown beings on other planets, who may still be living in that primitive state known as freedom.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, WE

“And it's also clear that what I felt yesterday, that stupid "dissolving in the universe", if you take it to its limit, is death. Because that's exactly what death is-the fullest possible dissolving of myself into the universe.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“And then here I am back down, right beside the stone, my body rumpled, happy, crumpled as if it had just made love. Sun. Voices from above. I-330's smile.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers are invariably children.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“Это было так неожиданно, так глупо, что я расхохотался. И тотчас же туго закрученная пружина во мне �� лопнула, рука ослабела, шток громыхнул на пол. Тут я на собственном опыте увидел, что смех �� самое страшное оружие: смехом можно убить все �� даже убийство.
Я сидел за столом и смеялся �� отчаянным, последним смехом �� и не видел никакого выхода из всего этого нелепого положения.”
― Zamyatin E., We

“the great power of logic purifies everything it happens to touch. Oh, if only you unknown readers can conceive this divine power! If you will only learn to follow it to the end!”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“Why is a dance beautiful? Answer: because it is an unfree movement. Because the deep meaning of the dance is contained in its absolute, ecstatic submission, in the ideal non-freedom.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“Why? And why do we have no feathers, no wings - just shoulderblades alone - the seating for wings? Because wings are no longer necessary - there's the aero, wings would only be a hindrance. Wings are for flying, and there's no longer anywhere for us to fly to: we've arrived, we've found everything.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“The whole world is one single unbounded woman, and we're right inside her belly, we haven't yet been born, we're joyously ripening.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“Any human being is surely both: an I, special, discrete; and a We, part of a family, a country, a culture. In the best of worlds, the We—the group—values the I for its uniqueness, and the I knows itself through its relationships with others. If the balance is understood and respected—or so we fondly believe—there need not be a conflict.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“Picture this: a human finger, cut from its body, its hand...a separate human finger, running hopping along, all hunched over, on a glass sidewalk. I am that finger.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“Can it really be that the world- our world- still exists? Or is this just inertia, the generator is off, but the gears are still turning and plodding along- two or three more rotations, then on the fourth, they'll come to a standstill...”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“Los niños son los únicos filósofos valientes. Y los filósofos valientes son como los niños, son verdaderamente infantiles. Pues, como los niños, hay que preguntar siempre.”
― Yevgueni Zamiatin, Nosotros

“Насмешливый, острый треугольник бровей:
�� Милый мой, ты �� математик. Даже �� больше: ты философ �� от математики. Так вот: назови мне последнее число.
�� То есть? Я... я не понимаю: какое �� последнее?
�� Ну �� последнее, верхнее, самое большое...
�� Но, I, �� это же нелепо. Раз число чисел бесконечно, какое же ты хочешь последнее?
�� А какую же ты хочешь последнюю революцию? Последней �� нет, революции �� бесконечны. Последняя �� это для детей: детей бесконечность пугает, а необходимо �� чтобы дети спокойно спали по ночам...”
― Евгений Иванович Замятин, Мы

“Το μαχαίρι είναι η πιο ισχυρή, η πιο αθάνατη, η πιο ευφυής από τις εφευρέσεις του ανθρώπου. Το μαχαίρι έγινε γκιλοτίνα, το μαχαίρι είναι η καθολική μέθοδος για να λύνεις κάθε δεσμό, πάνω στου μαχαιριού την κόψη πορεύεται η οδός του παραδόξου - η μόνη άξια οδός για έναν ατρόμητο νου...”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We