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Brave New World

“I’d rather be myself,” he said. “Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.”
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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.”

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World. New York: Perennial Classics, 1998.