242 Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.

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.

Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

Life itself has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates of Einstein, of revolution. In this new projection, the best-known formulas and objects become displaced, fantastic, familiar-unfamiliar. This is why it is so logical for literature today to be drawn to the fantastic plot, or to the amalgam of reality and fantasy. ("The New Russian Prose")

Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.