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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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God: a gaseous vertebrate.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
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One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.
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We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.
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Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
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For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
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The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That art thou') the Atman, or immanent eternal Self, is one with Brahman, the Absolute Principle of all existence and the last end of every human being, is to discover the fact for himself, to find out who he really is.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.
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Civilization is sterilization.
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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
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