Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes

Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the senses if we are to appreciate harmony.

When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.

I want to fuse the abrasive and the beautiful.

Imperfections define perfection

Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?

Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.

The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

To me, that ugliness, that grotesqueness - that's the essence [of life]. That's where you realize, it's not about all the consonance and the harmony. It's all the parts that are wrong that help explain why we're drawn to something - what the mystery is - just as much as the beautiful things.

It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.

Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.

Nature is a perfect example of the harmony between the beautiful and the brutal. You turn over a pretty rock and there are worms writhing underneath.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

Love develops into harmony, and of harmony is born beauty.

So much good, so much evil. Just add water.