“And tomorrow--who knows what happens? Do you get it? I don't know and no one knows--it's all unknown! You understand, that this is the end to the Known? This is the new, the improbable, the unpredictable.” KnowsEndsHappensKnownTomorrowUnpredictableImprobable Book:We Source: We
“Crossing out is an art that is, perhaps, even more difficult than writing. It requires the sharpest eye to decide what is superfluous and must be removed. And it requires ruthlessness toward yourself -- the greatest ruthlessness and self-sacrifice. You must know how to sacrifice parts in the name of the whole.” KnowsInspirationalWritingArtSelfWholeEyeLiteratureNamesDifficultKnow HowSacrificeCrossingsSelf SacrificeSuperfluousRuthlessness Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“How do you know that nonsense isn't a good thing? If human nonsense had been nurtured and developed for centuries, just as intelligence has, then perhaps something extraordinarily precious could have come from it.” IfsKnowsHumansCenturyGood ThingsNonsenseDo You Know Book:We Source: We
“In order to write about the machine you have to know it, to live with it, to love it (or hate it). I think that true writing could be done on industrial subjects by people who work in industry, who are firmly linked with it. But ... and here is the opposite 'but', the technology of literary craftsmanship is itself a very fine and complex matter. Qualified specialists from industry prove themselves dilettantes in the field of literature. The needed synthesis is not yet in sight.” PeopleThinkingKnowsInspirationalWritingArtMatterDoneHateOrderLiteratureTechnologySubjectsFieldsFineIndustryNeededProveMachinesOppositesSightComplexesLinkedQualifiedSpecialistsSynthesisCraftsmanshipDilettantes Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.” PeopleKnowsMenEndsLastsReadingNovelKnow HowPagesWorth Reading Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this "once in a thousand years" has come today.” KnowsLoveShouldYearsSaidTodayFlowerThousandTenHundredThousand Years Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.” KnowsMindLosesEssentials Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“It was clear: I was sick. I never used to dream. They say in the old days it was the most normal thing in the world to have dreams. Which makes sense: Their whole life was some kind of horrible merry-go-round of green, orange, Buddha, juice. But today we know that dreams point to a serious mental illness. And I know that up to now my brain has checked out chronometrically perfect, a mechanism without a speck of dust.” KnowsWorldKindWholeDreamTodayUsedPerfectBrainClearSeriousNormalSickGreenRoundsIllnessWhole LifeHorribleMental IllnessDustMake SenseMechanismOrangeJuiceMerryOld DaysSpecksNormal ThingsMerry Go Round Book:We: New Edition Source: We: New Edition
