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At night numbers must sleep; it is their duty, just as it is their duty to work in the daytime. Not sleeping at night is a criminal offense.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin We (1921)

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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.

On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters (1923)

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

On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters (1923)

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

Tomorrow (1919)

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

On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters (1923)

The sole means of ridding man of crime is to rid him of freedom.

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