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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life the individual is nothing Nature cares only for the species.
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... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
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I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in the profound and unfathomable mystery of life which has a sort of divine quality about it.
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If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.
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The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
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Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.
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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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Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.
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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
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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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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 leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness.
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We live together, we act on, and react to one another but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.
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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
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