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milenat29 марта 2024 г.Читать далее“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.”
“In fact,” said Mustapha Mond, “you’re claiming the right to be unhappy.”
“All right then,” said the Savage defiantly, “I’m claiming the right to be unhappy.”
“Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen to-morrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.”
There was a long silence.
“I claim them all,” said the Savage at last.
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World1072- milenat29 марта 2024 г.
There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is water?”
David Foster Wallace945 
robot26 марта 2018 г.разумные правила, которые действуют по умолчанию, действительно полезны. Понимая, что мы думаем лишь в краткосрочной перспективе, страдаем от собственного бездействия, скверно планируем, можем пасть жертвой неоправданного оптимизма, мы выбираем действующие по умолчанию правила — или отдаем должное тем, кто выбирает эти правила за нас.
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