“Real freedom will manifest itself, not based on politics and revolutions, which never gave it anyhow, because it's not a gift but a possession of the man who is not bored.” - Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March (1953)

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"It's not an insane world. At least, our part of it doesn't have to be."
"Of course not."
"We don't have to work and worry all the time. It's been our own fault that we have. What's been the matter with us?"
"I don't know," he said.
- The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, 1954

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“It is humiliating to find how impotent unadulterated sanity is.” - Aldous Huxley, Chrome Yellow (1921)

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