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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.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin Islanders and The Fisher of Men
Tags: truth, lying, lie, cruelty, cruel

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Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Literature is painting, architecture, and music.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
Tags: writing, painting, music, literature, creativity, art, architecture
True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin A Soviet Heretic: Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Tags: writing
knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith
— Yevgeny Zamyatin We
Tags: science, religion, faith, dystopia
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