Yevgeny Zamyatin

“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.”

“Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among...”

“Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie.”

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

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

“True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.”

“Literature is painting, architecture, and music.”

“The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.”

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