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To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.
– Anthony Burgess

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  2. The modern State, whether in a totalitarian or a democratic country, has far too much power, and we are probably right to fear it. – Anthony Burgess
  3. Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. – Anthony Burgess
  4. Addiction is the primary way people escape the modern world. Unfortunately, it is destroying the modern world. – Christyl Rivers
  5. The key to understanding if something is truly precious is to ask if we can hold it, for things truly precious cannot be held. – Craig D Lounsbrough
  6. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. – Gabrielle Zevin
  7. We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that we’re not alone. – Orson Welles
  8. You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it. – Joseph Campbell
  9. Life is precious, and in the grand song of the universe, life is short. There is much to be done. – Gloria Burgess
  10. You can viddy that everything in this wicked world counts. You can pony that one thing always leads to another. Right right right. – Anthony Burgess
  11. I like nothing better in this world than a good clean book, brother. – Anthony Burgess
  12. It’s funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen. – Anthony Burgess
  13. There was no trust anywhere in the world, O my brothers, the way I could see it. – Anthony Burgess
  14. I can’t accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias. – Anthony Burgess
  15. Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating. – Neel Burton
  16. When modern values and modern people are under attack in a country, we can be sure of a dark future in that country! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  17. The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility. – Oscar Wilde
  18. Despite the modern equipment we sell, it’s old money that funds it, and old money doesn’t always have a modern brain attached to it. – Taylin Clavelli
  19. Ask of your eyes to seeonly to seek love.Ask of your mouth to speakonly to utter words of love.Ask of your hands to feelif only to touch the lover. – Kamand Kojouri
  20. Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. – Yann Martel
  21. When we’re healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea. – Anthony Burgess
  22. And yet, in a sense, in choosing to be deprived of the ability to make an ethical choice, you have in a sense really chosen the good. – Anthony Burgess
  23. In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations. – Anthony Burgess
  24. A work of art is somehow organic, and to slash a painting or smash a statue is not just an offence against property: it is an offence against life. – Anthony Burgess
  25. The heresy of an age of reason,’ or some such slovos [words]. ‘I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong. – Anthony Burgess
  26. There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly. – Anthony Burgess
  27. Oh? And what’s so stinking about it?. – Anthony Burgess
  28. Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language – Anthony Burgess
  29. You were not put on this earth just to get in touch with God. – Anthony Burgess
  30. The danger of memory is that it can turn anyone into a prophet. – Anthony Burgess
  31. Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up. – Anthony Burgess
  32. A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth. – Anthony Burgess
  33. A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth. – Anthony Burgess
  34. We’re a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will. – Anthony Burgess
  35. Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers? – Anthony Burgess
  36. …I expected a gift, you know, something nice and useless… – Anthony Burgess
  37. The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured. – Anthony Burgess
  38. That’s the law, son. But you were never much of a one for following the law. – Anthony Burgess
  39. Of course it was horrible,’ smiled Dr. Branom. ‘Violence is a very horrible thing. That’s what you’re learning now. Your body is learning it. – Anthony Burgess
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