Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradoxโthe single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . .
Yevgeny ZamyatinWe have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X")
Yevgeny ZamyatinThey do not need the sun. Who needs the sun when the eyes glow? Darkness. A woolen fog has wrapped the earth, has dropped a heavy curtain. From far away, from beyond the curtain, comes the sound of drops falling on stone. Far, far away - the autumn, people, tomorrow. ("The North")
Yevgeny ZamyatinAnd everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential โ I know it.
Yevgeny ZamyatinEvery artist of importance creates his own world, with its own laws - creates and shapes it in his own shape and image, and no one else's. This is why it is difficult to fit the artist into a world that has already been created, a seven-day, fixed and solidified world: he will inevitably slip out of the set of laws and paragraphs, he will be a heretic.
Yevgeny Zamyatin