Yevgeny Zamyatin — We [928]

“Then how can there be a final revolution? There is no final one; revolutions are infinite. The final one is for children: children are frightened by infinity, and it’s important that children sleep peacefully at night…” — Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, 928

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A striking philosophical inversion that uses the protagonist’s own mathematical framework to dismantle the totalizing ideology of the One State.