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“We can always be sure of one thingthat the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned and pelted by those who wish to preserve at all costs their own contentment. This is not a lesson th...”
“Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You cant consume much if you sit still and read books.”
“I feel part of the environment, not separate from it, as though Im at home rather than visitingas though Im tapped into some eternal omnipresence beyond the transient physical forms.”
“He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with possessions, and prosperity with money to spend in a shop.”
“It would be pleasant to believe that the age of pessimism is now coming to a close, and that its end is marked by the same author who marked its beginning: Aldous Huxley. After thirty years of tryi...”
“We can always be sure of one thing—that the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned and pelted by those who wish to preserve at all costs their own contentment. This is not a lesson t...”
“Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.”
“I feel part of the environment, not separate from it, as though I’m at home rather than visiting—as though I’m tapped into some eternal omnipresence beyond the transient physical forms.”
