“Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.”
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<b>“[Zamyatin’s] intuitive grasp of the irrational side of totalitarianism— human sacrifice, cruelty as an end in itself—makes [<i>We</i>] superior to Huxley’s [<i>Brave New World</i>].”—George Orwell<br><br>Translated by Natasha Randall • Foreword by Bruce Sterling</b><br> <br> Written in 1921, <i>We</i> is set in the One State, where all live for the collective good and individual freedom does not exist. The novel takes the form of the diary of mathematician D-503, who, to his shock, experiences the most disruptive emotion imaginable: love. At once satirical and sobering—and now available in a powerful new translation—<i>We</i> is both a rediscovered classic and a work of tremendous relevance to our own times.
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Yevgeny Zamyatin
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“Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.”
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“Knowledge, self confident knowledge, which is sure that it is faultless, is faith.”
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“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.”
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“knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith”
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“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.”
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