Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"

"knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"

"Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative."

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

"It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this "once in a thousand years"has come today."

"knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"

"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."