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An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations.
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Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering and violent. Taking their cue from an unfortunate remark in Genesis, Catholic moralists have regarded animals as mere things which men do right to regard for their own ends. . . .
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To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.
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Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?
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Today we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the ultimate revolution, the final revolution, where man can act directly on the mind-body of his fellows.
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If you want to write, keep cats.
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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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Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust
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Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.
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You've got to be hurt and upset otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
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The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned it remains intact.
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No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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Nothing short of everything will really do.
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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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