I'm claiming the right to be unhappy

"Don't you wish you were free, Lenina?"
"I don't know what you mean. I am free. Free to have the most wonderful time. Everybody's happy nowadays."

[...]

"I'd rather be myself. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly."

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Chapter 6

Brave New World, 1932