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True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.
True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.
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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