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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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[I am not] the captain of my soul I am only its noisiest passenger.
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Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.
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We live together, we act on, and react to, one another but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.
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In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners.A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock.
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In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months.
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Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.
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Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.
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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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