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    Aldous Huxley
    “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.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: happiness
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    Aldous Huxley
    “No social stability without individual stability.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: society
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    Aldous Huxley
    “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: child-abuse, conditioning, indoctrination, mind-control, parenting
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Ending is better than mending.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: sustainability
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    Aldous Huxley
    “I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “There is always something left to love.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
    tags: love
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “...time was not passing...it was turning in a circle...”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice...”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
    tags: colombia, español, first-lines, latin-america, spanish
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    Philip K. Dick
    “What they do not comprehend is man's helplessness. I am weak, small, of no consequence to the universe. It does not notice me; I live on unseen. But why is that bad? Isn't it that way? Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small… and you will escape the jealousy of the great.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
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    Philip K. Dick
    “We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
    tags: existential, truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: truth
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    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: inspirational
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    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war
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    George Orwell
    “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: books, reading
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    George Orwell
    “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: april, dystopia, first-sentence, opening-lines
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    George Orwell
    “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
    ― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
    tags: 1946, language, power-of-words, propaganda, thought
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    George Orwell
    “Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
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    George Orwell
    “Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: truth
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    George Orwell
    “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: political
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    George Orwell
    “For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: ethics, logic, metaphysics, ontology, philosophy, psychology, science
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    Liu Cixin
    “No, emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is a type of existence. You must use this existential emptiness to fill yourself.”
    ― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem
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    Liu Cixin
    “It was impossible to expect a moral awakening from humankind itself, just like it was impossible to expect humans to lift off the earth by pulling up on their own hair. To achieve moral awakening required a force outside the human race.”
    ― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem
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    Liu Cixin
    “Every era puts invisible shackles on those who have lived through it, and I can only dance in my chains.”
    ― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem
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    Liu Cixin
    “In the face of madness, rationality was powerless.”
    ― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem
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