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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
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 associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. Exclusiveness will add to the pleasure of being several, but at one and secrecy will intensify it almost to ecstasy.
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Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
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Isn't it remarkable how everyone who knew [D.H.] Lawrence has felt compelled to write about him? Why, he's had more books written about him than any writer since Byron!
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We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.
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All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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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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I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven.
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It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.
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In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high in reality, very low.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.
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The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.
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Most loverspicture to themselves, in their mistresses, a secret reality, beyond and different from what they see every day. They are in love with somebody else--their own invention. And sometimes there is a secret reality and sometimes reality and appearance are the same. The discovery, in either case, is likely to cause a shock.
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Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life the individual is nothing Nature cares only for the species.
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In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.
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