Quotes by : Yevgeny Zamyatin

The moon hangs alien, heavy, like a lock on a door; the door is tightly shut. ("The North")

They say there is a kind of flower that blooms only once a century, Then couldn't there be one that flowers....

The moon climbed out of the ravine, blue, skinny, as if it had been fed on nothing but skimmed milk.....

But clouds bellied out in the sultry heat, the sky cracked open with a crimson gash, spewed flame-and....

N-no-o, all that excitement, it wouldn't reach us,' Timosha spoke gloomily. 'We're like the sunken city....

Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's....

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't....

The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the....

Darkness. The door into the neighboring room is not quite shut. A strip of light stretches through the....

You can only love something that refuses to be mastered.