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“I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”

“Christianity without tears—that’s what soma is.”

“You just abolish the slings and arrows. It’s too easy.”

“But industrial civilization is only possible when there’s no self-denial.”

“But people are never alone now.”

“Well, he manifests himself as an absence; as though he weren’t there at all.”

“God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness.”

Mass production demands shift from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness

Separation of the conscious from the unconscious

“We don’t want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.”

“But that’s the price we have to pay for stability. You’ve got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We’ve sacrificed high art.”

“We haven’t any use for old things here”
“Even when they’re beautiful?”
“Particularly when they’re beautiful.”