"Yes," Mustapha Mond was saying, "that's another item in the cost of stability. It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's also science...












Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity
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"Every one belongs to every one else.
"There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol."..."There was a thing called the soul and a thing...
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"Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time.
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"Today I feel no wish to demonstrate that sanity is impossible. On the contrary, though I remain no less sadly certain than in the past that sanity is ...
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"That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.