

“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”
― Point Counter Point
― Point Counter Point

“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

“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

“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
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