Brave New World

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A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.

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Basically it is saying that being mentally superior brings with it its own sense of isolation and estrangement from society.

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