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“Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.”
― Oryx and Crake
― Oryx and Crake
“He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there's the future. Sheer vertigo.”
― Oryx and Crake
― Oryx and Crake
“And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.”
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“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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