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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
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Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.
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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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We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.
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Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using - you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?
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Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.
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You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
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People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.
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The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface .
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Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown.
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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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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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As late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads of plate and bedspreads, of carpets and tapestries.
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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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When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.
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Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
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