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I am aware of myself. And, of course, the only things that are aware of themselves and conscious of their individuality are irritated eyes, cut fingers, sore teeth. A healthy eye, finger, tooth might as well not even be there. Isn't it clear that individual consciousness is just sickness?
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More Quotes by 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.
We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")
The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.
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.
Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
Explosions are not comfortable.
