Whatever is he saying?" said a voice, very near, distinct and shrill through the warblings of the Super-Wurlitzer.
The Savage violently started and, uncovering his face, looked round. Five khaki twins, each with the stump of a long eclair in his right hand, and their identical faces variously smeared with liquid chocolate, were standing in a row, puggily goggling at him.
They met his eyes and simultaneously grinned. One of them pointed with his eclair butt.
"Is she dead?"he asked.
A squat gray building of only thirty-four stories.
Aldous HuxleyTags: first-sentence
Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
Aldous HuxleyGreat is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
Aldous HuxleyTags: truth
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
Aldous HuxleyTags: consistency
You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.
Aldous HuxleyAn intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
Aldous HuxleyTags: attributed intellectualism
Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence—those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
Aldous HuxleyTags: consumerism
A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The name was an abstraction, a title arbitrarily given, like "France" or "England," to a collection, never long the same, of many individuals who were born, lived, and died within him, as the inhabitants of a country appear and disappear, but keep alive in their passage the identity of the nation to which they belong.
Aldous HuxleyThose who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.
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