asigoddamnit

“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

“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

“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

“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