Explore "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Do you believe that _you will die_? Oh, yes, "Man is mortal. I am a man, consequently." No, not that; I know that; you know it. But I ask: has it ever happened that you _actually believed_ it? Believed definitely, believed not with your reason but with your _body_, that you actually felt that some day those fingers which now hold this page, will become yellow, icy?.
No, of course you cannot believe this. That is why you have not jumped from the tenth floor to the pavement before now, that is why you eat, turn over these pages, shave, smile, write.