4 Quotes by Huxley

Till at last the child's mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child's mind. And not the child's mind only. The adult's mind too–all his life long. The mind that judges and desires and decides–made up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are OUR suggestions!" The Director almost shouted in his triumph. "Suggestions from the State.

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 high art. We have the feelies and the scent organ instead.

Every one says I'm awfully pneumatic," said Lenina reflectively, patting her own legs."Awfully." But there was an expression of pain in Bernard's eyes. "Like meat," he was thinking.She looked up with a certain anxiety. "But you don't think I'm too plump, do you?"He shook his head. Like so much meat."You think I'm all right." Another nod. "In every way?""Perfect," he said aloud. And inwardly. "She thinks of herself that way. She doesn't mind being meat.

To pore over the literary shortcomings of twenty years ago, to attempt to patch a faulty work into the perfection it missed on its first execution, to spend one's middle age in trying to mend the artistic sins committed and bequeathed by that different person who was oneself in youth – all this is surely vain and futile.