Quotes by
Yevgeni Zamyatin |
1884-1937 , Russian writer
He is thw author of the novel “We” (1921), which brought him into disfavor with the Stalinist regime, although he was an old Bolshevik himself.This work was smuggled into the West where it became the inspiration for “1984” and “Brave New World” by Orwell and Huxley respectively. In 1934 he was granted permission to leave the Soviet Union. He died penniless in Paris.
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Quotations
| • | Literature is painting, architecture, and music. 2 |
| • | A human being is like a novel. You don’t know how it will end until the last page, otherwise it’s not worth reading. |
| • | Those two in Paradise had two choices: happiness without freedom or freedom without happiness. There was no third choice. |
| • | The “we” comes from God, the “I” from the devil. |