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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
Aldous Huxley
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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human Intelligence, Animal Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.
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A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.
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In real life there is no such person as the average man.
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It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
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Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.
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But every one belongs to every one else
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Everyone belongs to everyone else.
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I don't care where I'm from, nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.
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Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.
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Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
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No Romeo-and-Juliet acts, no nonsense about Love with a large L, none of that popular song claptrap with its skies of blue, dreams come true, heaven with you. Just sensuality for its own sake.
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The flower of the present rosily blossomed.
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Nothing short of everything will really do.
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The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
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The business of a seer is to see and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.
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[I am not] the captain of my soul I am only its noisiest passenger.
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We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.
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Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.
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