Brave New World

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• Title: Brave New World
• Author: Aldous Huxley
• Book URL: https://amazon.com/dp/B075DB9F3C?tag=malvaonlin-20
• Open in Kindle: kindle://book/?action=open&asin=B075DB9F3C
• Last Updated on: Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Highlights & Notes

‘Did you ever feel,’ he asked slowly, ‘as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it the chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you could be using if you knew how?’

Words are the most powerful of weapons if you use them properly - they’ll cut through anything. But what’s the good of that if the things you write about have no power in them?

‘I’d rather be myself,’ he said. ‘Myself and unhappy. Not somebody else, however cheerful.’

‘I want to know what passion is,’ he said. ‘I want to feel something strongly. We are all grown-up intellectually and during working hours,’ he went on, ‘but we are infants where feeling and desire are concerned.’

‘Of course it does. Happiness is never as exciting as unhappiness or the struggles of great passions. Happiness is never grand.’