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George Orwell wrote a great review of 'We' (link below). Interesting that he thought the Soviet regime may not have been the intended target for Zamyatin's satire. Zamyatin, like Orwell, wasn't the biggest fan of the industrial/technological changes
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“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insights and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all of our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.”
― In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950
― In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950
“I was once again gripped by the old familiar passion; I wrote without looking up, nor did I look round either - neither to the left, nor to the right.”
― Wolf Among Wolves
― Wolf Among Wolves
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