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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
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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The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same.
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There was a thing called Heaven but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.
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Ending is better than mending.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
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Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
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What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!
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If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.
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Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
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