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“Happiness is corny. It is a word you do not find in Dorland's medical dictionary. When people are feeling tops, really at peace with themselves and others, they are not happy. In the medical sense, in that condition they are thought of not as happy, they are "euphoric," which, loosely translated, means slap-happy.”
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“Happiness is a hard master—particularly other people’s happiness.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“Its strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and ignore the truth.”
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“We are lived by drives we cannot command, and we are read by works we cannot resist.”
― Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
― Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
“It was curious how that beetlelike type proliferated in the Ministries: little dumpy men, growing stout very early in life, with short legs, swift scuttling movements, and fat inscrutable faces with very small eyes. It was the type that seemed to flourish best under the dominion of the Party.”
― 7 Novel Dystopian Collection
― 7 Novel Dystopian Collection
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