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Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

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
Screenwriter
Writer
Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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No social stability without individual stability.
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Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful -- if strenuously led -- as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress.
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Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.
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When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.
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Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?
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I'd rather be myself, he said. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.
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Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.
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Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
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If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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The instinct of acquisitiveness has more perverts, I believe, than the instinct of sex. At any rate, people seem to me odder about money than about even their amours.
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The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of eternity into the soul, and through which love can pass from one soul in time to another soul in time.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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So now you can let go, my darling...Let go...Let go of this poor old body. You don't need it anymore. Let it fall away from you. Leave it lying there like a pile of worn-out clothes...Go on, my darling, go on into the Light, into the peace, into the living peace of the Clear Light.
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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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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
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The silent bear no witness against themselves.
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When the individual feels, the community reels.
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Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain from the minus sign proceeded the whole theory of negative quantities.
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To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations.
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Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.
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