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Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley
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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.
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Blood of the world, time staunchless flows The wound is mortal and is mine.
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I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.
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Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
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Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
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In life, man proposes, God disposes.
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I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.
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For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.
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The only truly consistent are the dead.
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Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.
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Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.
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If you want to write, keep cats.
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Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
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Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
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But 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 the high art.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth I paid too.
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The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable
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My fate cannot be mastered it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul I am only its noisiest passenger.
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