Walden
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
“...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”
― Silent Spring
― Silent Spring
“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
“In nature nothing exists alone.”
― Silent Spring
― Silent Spring
“There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
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