Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Literature is painting, architecture, and music.”

“Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.”

“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.”

“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.”

“knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith”

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