What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons — horizons seen from mastheads, from airplanes; we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless "Why?" and "What next?" This is what children ask. But then children are the boldest philosophers.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin, On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters (1923)

From the 1923 collection On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters.

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