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“The more I think about it, the more I'd like to take a rain check on the topic of me.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“It's good to realize that within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“I'm not an easy guy to protect.
I don't need easy.”
― Alex London, Guardian

“You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you; you hate it because you are afraid of it; you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“Without her the sun of tomorrow will be merely a tin circle, and the sky, tin painted blue, and I myself.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“Well, which final revolution do you want then? There isn’t a final one. Revolutions are infinite. Final things are for children because infinity scares children and it is important that children sleep peacefully at night . . .”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“Harmful literature is more useful than useful literature, for it is antientropic, it is a means of combating calcification. ...It is utopian, absurd. ...It is right 150 years later.'

-from 'On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters' as read in the introduction to Mirra Ginsburg's translation of 'We.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“The flame will cool tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow. . . . But someone must see this already today, and speak heretically today about tomorrow. Heretics are the only (bitter) remedy against the entropy of human thought.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“And that was when I learned from my own experience that a laugh can be a terrifying weapon. With a laugh you can kill even murder itself.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“This woman was just as irritating to me as an irrational term that accidently creeps into your equation and can't be factored out.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We