Yevgeny Zamyatin, We — Facts—The Bell—I Am Certain (1924)
“ I cannot help smiling; a splinter has been taken out of my head, and I feel so light, so empty! To be more exact, not empty, but there is nothing foreign, nothing that prevents me from smiling. (Smiling is the normal state for a normal human being.) ”
Yevgeny Zamyatin, We — Facts—The Bell—I Am Certain (1924)
“ Tomorrow they will all ascend the steps to the Machine of the Well-Doer. No postponement is possible, for there still is chaos, groaning, cadavers, beasts in the western section; and to our regret there are still quantities of Numbers who have betrayed Reason. ”
