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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

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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 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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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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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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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.
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Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
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A gramme is better than a damn.
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What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.
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For [D.H.] Lawrence, existence was one continuous convalescence it was as though he were newly reborn from a mortal illness every day of his life. What these convalescent eyes saw, his most casual speech would reveal.
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Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.
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If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
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The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society Providence takes its cue from men.
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The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.
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Love casts out fear but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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Pain was a fascinating horror
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People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.
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