"Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.”
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“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
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"Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology."
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"The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg - eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.” |
"A love of nature keeps no factories busy."
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"Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”
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"But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.”
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"All right then," said the Savage defiantly,"I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.”
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London, England - The city in which Brave New World is set in the year 2540 AD (or 632 AF - "After Ford")