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Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
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No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.
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An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.
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Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
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I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.
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Let us be kinder to one another.
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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 had to depend on Braille for my reading and guide for my walking...I am now wearing no glasses, reading and all without strain...by taking lessons in seeing...optometrists hate the method.
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A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world - intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man.
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Consciousness is only possible through change change is only possible through movement.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
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Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology.
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I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.
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I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in the profound and unfathomable mystery of life which has a sort of divine quality about it.
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People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.
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The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories.
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Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right
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On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must Have a Stop)
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