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"“It was like the last feeble echo of a sound made long and long ago. So entirely that it lost the life and resonance of a human voice, that it affected the senses like a once beautiful colour faded away into a poor weak stain.”" — Sep 29, 2025 01:30AM
"“It was like the last feeble echo of a sound made long and long ago. So entirely that it lost the life and resonance of a human voice, that it affected the senses like a once beautiful colour faded away into a poor weak stain.”" — Sep 29, 2025 01:30AM
“...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
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“Miss Josephine Barry wrote back that she had never read anything so amusing in her life. That kind of puzzled us because the stories were all very pathetic and almost everybody died. But I'm glad Miss Barry liked them.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“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.'
'In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.'
'All right then,' said the Savage defiantly, 'I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.'
'Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.' There was a long silence.
'I claim them all,' said the Savage at last.
Mustapha Mond shrugged his shoulders. 'You're welcome," he said.”
― Brave New World
'In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.'
'All right then,' said the Savage defiantly, 'I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.'
'Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.' There was a long silence.
'I claim them all,' said the Savage at last.
Mustapha Mond shrugged his shoulders. 'You're welcome," he said.”
― Brave New World
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