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It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

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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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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.
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Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
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To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.
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A large city cannot be experientially known its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
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Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.
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Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.
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I don't think there is any incompatibility between science and mysticism . . . Immanent religion is the only form of religion in which there is no conflict at all, that I can see, between science and religion.
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To his dog, every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs.
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And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else
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But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
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To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large-This is the experience of inestimable value to everyone.
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Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake it is a pond.
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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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