Yevgeny Zamyatin — We [380]

“That means you love it. 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.” — Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, 380

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A neat, paradoxical philosophical reversal that reinterprets fear and hatred as the true signatures of love and unmastered power.