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“To an artist, creating an image means being in love with it.”

Quote by Yevgeny Zamyatin

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Yevgeny Zamyatin

Russian author known for his dystopian novel 'We'. Born on February 1, 1884, in Taganrog, Russia, he passed away on March 10, 1937. more

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“The myth about the angel who rebelled against his Lord is the most beautiful of all myths, the proudest, the most revolutionary, the most immortal of them all.”

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“I've read and heard a lot of unbelievable stuff about those times when people lived in freedom -- that is, in disorganized wildness.”

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Book:We: New Edition

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“Knowledge! What does that mean? Your knowledge is nothing but cowardice. No, really, that's all it is. You just want to put a little wall around infinity. And you're afraid to look on the other side of that wall.”

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Book:We: New Edition

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“All women are lips, nothing but lips.”

Book:We: New Edition

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“The mighty power of logic cleanses all it touches.”

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“The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love.”

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“I was born with the wrong sign In the wrong house With the wrong ascendancy I took the wrong road That led to The wrong tendencies I was in the wrong place At the wrong time For the wrong reason And the wrong rhyme On the wrong day Of the wrong week Used the wrong method With the wrong technique Wrong Wrong.”

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“The moon ... is a mad woman holding up her dress So that her white belly shines. Haughty, Impregnable, Ridiculous, Silent and white as a debauched queen.”

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Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.”

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“Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.”

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