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1 For that there must be words, but words without reason.
2 They tried; but obviously without the smallest success.
3 Tall and rather thin but upright, the Director advanced into the room.
4 They were Alphas, of course; but even Alphas have been well conditioned.
5 Lenina blushed scarlet; but her eyes, the tone of her voice remained defiant.
6 Not philosophers, but fret-sawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.
7 They had not yet learned to draw the significant but often very fine distinction between smut and pure science.
8 The principle had been discovered; but many, many years were to elapse before that principle was usefully applied.
9 He was going to say 'future World Controllers,' but correcting himself, said 'future Directors of Hatcheries' instead.'
10 'all wear green,' said a soft but very distinct voice, beginning in the middle of a sentence, 'and Delta Children wear khaki.'
11 brooded over them like a cat over its kittens; but a cat that could talk, a cat that could say, 'My baby, my baby,' over and over again.
12 No longer anonymous, but named, identified, the procession marched slowly on; on through an opening in the wall, slowly on into the Social Predestination Room.
13 The students nodded, emphatically agreeing with a statement which upwards of sixty-two thousand repetitions in the dark had made them accept, not merely as true, but as axiomatic, self-evident, utterly indisputable.
14 The nurses obeyed; but at the approach of the roses, at the mere sight of those gaily-coloured images of pussy and cock-a-doodle-doo and baa-baa black sheep, the infants shrank away in horror; the volume of their howling suddenly increased.
15 had at that moment sat down on one of the steel and rubber benches conveniently scattered through the gardens; but at the sight of the stranger, he sprang to his feet and darted forward, his hands outstretched, smiling with all his teeth, effusive.
16 Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory.
17 Thousands of petals, ripe-blown and silkily smooth, like the cheeks of innumerable little cherubs, but of cherubs, in that bright light, not exclusively pink and Aryan, but also luminously Chinese, also Mexican, also apoplectic with too much blowing of celestial trumpets, also pale as death, pale with the posthumous whiteness of marble.
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