Η εμπειρία δεν είναι αυτό που σου συμβαίνει. Είναι το τι κάνεις με αυτό που σου συμβαίνει.

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...no offense is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behavior. Murder kills only the individual--and after all, what is an individual?" With a sweeping gesture he indicated the rows of microscopes, the test tubes, the incubators. "We can make a new one with the greatest ease-- as many as we like. Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.

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Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment and because books were scarce and difficult to reproduce...As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.

Aldous Huxley

Tag: reading satire

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In the street he drew a deep breath. He was free. Free from recollection and anticipation. Free, for an hour or two, to refuse to admit the existence of the past or future. Free to live only now and here, in the place where his body happened at each instant to be. Free -- but the boast was idle; he went on remembering. Escape was not so easy a matter.

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There aren't any lions in England," Lenina almost snapped.
"And even if there were," the Savage added, with sudden contemptuous resentment, "people would kill them out of helicopters, I suppose, with poison gas or something.

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It is not enough for the phrases to be good., what you make with them ought to be good too.

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You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Aldous Huxley

Tag: science-fiction dystopian-fiction

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Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

Aldous Huxley

Tag: science-fiction dystopian-fiction

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That is the secret of happiness and virtue -- liking what you've got to do.

Aldous Huxley

Tag: brave-new-world

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Like every other good thing in this
world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however,
it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. Let us be
duly thankful for that, my dear Denis--duly thankful.

Aldous Huxley

Tag: power wealth leisure humorous

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