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The only reason I'm writing this down is to show how human reason, even very sharp and exact human reason, can get crazily confused and thrown off the track.

The only reason I'm writing this down is to show how human reason, even very sharp and exact human reason, can get crazily confused and thrown off the track.

Approximate author period: c. 1910 AD · modern

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Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Approximate author period: c. 1910 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1884 to 1937; Wikidata Q204868, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q204868 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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