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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Aldous Huxley

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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
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Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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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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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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Home, home -- a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space an understerilized prison darkness, disease, and smells.
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God: a gaseous vertebrate.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the by-product of other activities.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Dream in a pragmatic way.
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If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.
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There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Pully, hauly, tug with a will the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.
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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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The social body persists although the component cells may change.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.
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Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.
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If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
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Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.
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