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Aldous Huxley

  • Byunggyu Parkhas quoted5 months ago
    “Ass!” said the Director, breaking a long silence. “Hasn’t it occurred to you that an Epsilon embryo must have an Epsilon environment as well as an Epsilon heredity?”
    It evidently hadn’t occurred to him. He was covered with confusion.
    “The lower the caste,” said Mr. Foster, “the shorter the oxygen.” The first organ affected was the brain. After that the skeleton. At seventy per cent of normal oxygen you got dwarfs. At less than seventy eyeless monsters.
  • Стас Поздняковhas quoted2 years ago
    more than a century and a half ago. The whole of Ireland was put on to the four-hour day. What was the result? Unrest and a large increase in the consumption of soma; that was al
  • Стас Поздняковhas quoted2 years ago
    You can only be independent of God while you've got youth and prosperity; independence won't take you safely to the end.' W
  • Rose Lilyhas quoted2 years ago
    The principle of mass production at last applied to biology
  • Rose Lilyhas quoted2 years ago
    But why do you want to keep the embryo below par?” asked an ingenuous student.

    “Ass!” said the Director
  • Rose Lilyhas quoted2 years ago
    “Consider the horse.”

    They considered it.
  • Rose Lilyhas quoted2 years ago
    “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 un-escapable social destiny.”
  • Lunahas quotedlast year
    une société non utopique, moins “parfaite” et plus libre.
  • wonderhoyhas quotedlast year
    The spirit of life and love that triumphs still
    In its slow struggle towards some far-off goal
    Through lust and death and the bitterness of will.
  • wonderhoyhas quotedlast year
    Defined and hard:—If he could kiss her face,
    Could kiss her hair! As if by chance, her hand
    Brushes on his ... Ah, can she understand?
    Or is she pedestalled above the touch
    Of his desire? He wonders: dare he seek
    From her that little, that infinitely much?
    And suddenly she kissed him on the cheek.
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