Brave New World

Book · 5 characters · 516 quotes · 1932

Quotes from Brave New World

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"I love you so much, I don't mind if you go with other women."
Lenina Crowne Love
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"The secret's kept, I don't know how."
Mustapha Mond Truth
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"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin."
John the Savage Freedom
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"I shall have to dose myself again with soma"
Bernard Marx
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"I'm happy now. I haven't been in a long time"
Bernard Marx Happiness
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"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery"
Mustapha Mond Wisdom
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"The world's stable now, people are happy"
Mustapha Mond Peace
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"Civilization has absolutely nothing to do with niceness"
Mustapha Mond Philosophy
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"I shall go mad if I am deprived of soma"
Lenina Crowne
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"Yes, that's the price we have to pay for stability"
Mustapha Mond Freedom
M
"Happiness and virtue used to be difficult virtues to attain"
Mustapha Mond Happiness
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"I like the Savage Reservation idea less and less"
Lenina Crowne Fear
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"You can't have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices"
Mustapha Mond Politics
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"I've a right to be happy"
Lenina Crowne Happiness
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"How much truth can the individual psyche take"
Mustapha Mond Wisdom
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"I don't much like the idea of going to the Savage Reservation"
Lenina Crowne Fear
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"That would be terrible"
Lenina Crowne Fear
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"The greatest moralizing and socializing force of all time"
Mustapha Mond Technology
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"I'm glad I'm not you"
Lenina Crowne Relationships
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"Every one belongs to every one else."
Lenina Crowne
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"Stability is also rather dull. That's the price we have to pay."
Mustapha Mond Peace
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"But I don't want to feel happy. I want real experience of the world."
John the Savage
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"That's the price we have to pay for the incredible stability of our civilization."
Mustapha Mond
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"I can't help liking you."
Lenina Crowne Relationships
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"I don't think I approve of the lower classes following their humbler paths."
Lenina Crowne
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"The people who make us unhappy are always the people we might have loved."
John the Savage Love
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"I'm in love with you."
John the Savage Love
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"I want what you have—I want to know what passion is like."
John the Savage
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"I am my own world and nobody else's business but my own."
John the Savage Solitude
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"The more you've read, the less you know anything."
Lenina Crowne Knowledge