“I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“I am I, and I wish I weren't.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“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.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
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