Yevgeny Zamyatin, We — No, I Can’t; Let It Be Without Headings… (1924)
“ The sky is covered with a milky-golden tissue, and one cannot see what is there, beyond, on the heights. The ancients “knew” that the greatest, bored skeptic—their god—lived there. We know that crystalline, blue, naked, indecent Nothing is there. I no longer know what is there. I have learned too many things of late. Knowledge, self-confident knowledge, which is sure that it is faultless, is faith. ”
Yevgeny Zamyatin, We — No, I Can’t; Let It Be Without Headings… (1924)
“ The ancient god and we, side by side at the same table! Yes, we helped god to defeat the devil definitely and finally. It was he, the devil, who led people to transgression, to taste pernicious freedom—he, the cunning serpent. ”
Yevgeny Zamyatin, We — No, I Can’t; Let It Be Without Headings… (1924)
“ There were two in paradise and the choice was offered to them: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. ”
