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Ending is better than mending.

Aldous Huxley

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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
Screenwriter
Writer
Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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Only times and places, only names and ghosts.
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Science in itself is morally neutral it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.
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One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.
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On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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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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Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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And that, put in the Director sententiously, that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.
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When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when you slip up and return to old, self-defeating habits, recognize the signs that you're out of harmony with intention.
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For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Suddenly to realise that one is sitting, damned, among the other damned--it is a most disquieting experience so disquieting thatmost of us react to it by immediately plunging more deeply into our particular damnation in the hope, generally realized, that we may be able, at least for a time, to stifle our revolutionary knowledge.
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If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
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God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.
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...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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When the individual feels, the community reels.
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Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty.... Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting into trumpets. No Duse without a crowd of malodorous bourgeois giving one another their coryzas. And think of the inexpugnable retreats for microbes prepared by Michelangelo in the curls of Moses' beard!
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Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
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