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Quotes from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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1 Government's an affair of sitting, not hitting.
2 'I'm glad I'm not an Epsilon,' said Lenina, with conviction.
3 While at thirteen a man is not yet sexually mature; and is only full grown at twenty.
4 But, Fanny, do you really mean to say that for the next three months you're not supposed to.
5 But though the Epsilon mind was mature at ten, the Epsilon body was not fit to work till eighteen.
6 It was not till he had actually climbed into Bernard's plane and slammed the door that they gave up pursuit.
7 They had not yet learned to draw the significant but often very fine distinction between smut and pure science.
8 He had a long chin and big, rather prominent teeth, just covered, when he was not talking, by his full, floridly curved lips.
9 Bernard gave his orders in the sharp, rather arrogant and even offensive tone of one who does not feel himself too secure in his superiority.
10 But as the two thousand million inhabitants of the planet had only ten thousand names between them, the coincidence was not particularly surprising.
11 And after all,' Fanny's tone was coaxing, 'it's not as though there were anything painful or disagreeable about having one or two men besides Henry.
12 Wretched, in a word, because she had behaved as any healthy and virtuous English girl ought to behave and not in some other, abnormal, extraordinary way.
13 Identical twins--but not in piddling twos and threes as in the old viviparous days, when an egg would sometimes accidentally divide; actually by dozens, by scores at a time.
14 He was like a man pursued, but pursued by enemies he does not wish to see, lest they should seem more hostile even than he had supposed, and he himself be made to feel guiltier and even more helplessly alone.
15 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.
16 What with mothers and lovers, what with the prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey, what with the temptations and the lonely remorses, what with all the diseases and the endless isolating pain, what with the uncertainties and the poverty--they were forced to feel strongly.
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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