Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes

How do you know that nonsense isn't a good thing? If human nonsense had been nurtured and developed for centuries, just as intelligence has, then perhaps something extraordinarily precious could have come from it.

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  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Human
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  • Developed