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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

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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Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
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Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.
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When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.
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In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.
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Civilization is sterilization.
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Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
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... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
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Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity
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I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.
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I'm pretty good at inventing phrases - you know, the sort of words that suddenly make you jump, almost as though you'd sat on a pin, they seem so new and exciting even though they're about something hypnopaedically* obvious. But that doesn't seem enough. It's not enough for the phrases to be good what you make with them ought to be good too.
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From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
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We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like and if the art we like is bad then our thinking and feeling will be bad. And if the thinking and feeling of most of the individuals composing a society is bad, is not that society in danger?
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Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be
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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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