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No revolution, no heresy is comfortable or easy. For it is a leap, it is a break in the smooth evolutionary curve, and a break is a wound, a pain.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters (1923)

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Science and art both project the world along certain coordinates. Differences in form are due only to differences in the coordinates.

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Realism that is not primitive, not realia but realiora, consists in displacement, distortion, curvature, non-objectivity.

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Every today is at the same time both a cradle and a shroud: a shroud for yesterday, a cradle for tomorrow.

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Heretics are the only (bitter) remedy against the entropy of human thought.

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