Sublime

Tout le génie de Huxley est de montrer que l’on peut contrôler les gens bien plus sûrement par l’amour et le plaisir que par la peur et la violence. Quand on lit 1984, il est clair qu’Orwell décrit un monde de cauchemar, effroyable. La seule question demeurant ouverte est donc : « Comment éviter de se retrouver dans une situation aussi terrible ? »

'But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt.

So long as you progress fast enough it seems a matter of indifference to him whether you are progressing to the stars or the devil.

Short-lived people, people who could die, did not know what enemies loneliness and boredom could be.

'Moral education, which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational.'