"The two inhabitants of Paradise were given the opportunity to choose: happiness without freedom or freedom without happiness; tertium non datur. And they, donkeys, chose freedom: so what? You understand: then they regretted the chains for centuries."
— Yevgeny Zamyatin

January 1, 1970

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Ai due abitanti del Paradiso fu data l’opportunità di scegliere: felicità senza libertà o libertà senza felicità; tertium non datur. E loro, asini, scelsero la libertà: e dunque? Si capisce: poi hanno rimpianto le catene per secoli. — As quoted in Giulia Giaume, Noi, o di come nacque la distopia, in Arttrubune.com (in Italian; October 25, 2024)