The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy. (__omorrow_)
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Yevgeny Zamyatin
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A Soviet Heretic: Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Islanders And, The Fisher Of Men
The Dragon: Fifteen Stories
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In the ancient world, this was understood by the Christians, our only (if very imperfect) predecessors: Humility is a virtue, pride a vice; We comes from God, I from the Devil.
Strictly speaking, she was out of order. This dear 0-, how shall 1 say it?The speed of her tongue is not correctly calculated; the speed per second of her tongue should be slightly less than the speed per second of her thoughts-at any rate not the reverse.
The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.
...sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.
But a thought swarmed in me; what if he, this yellow-eyed being _ in his ridiculous, dirty bundle of trees, in his uncalculated life _ is happier than us?