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“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”
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“I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. "Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does." They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.”
― Brave New World Revisited
― Brave New World Revisited
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