 
   
      “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
 
      “We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves. ”
    
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      “There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it.”
    
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      “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
    
― Collected Essays
  ― Collected Essays
 
      “A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.”
    
― La volgarità in letteratura
  ― La volgarità in letteratura
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