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Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
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Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.
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Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope in this way to atone for past sins and avoid future punishments it is also because they long to visit the mind's antipodes and do some visionary sightseeing.
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We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.
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I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe.
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It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers treat them to amplified band music, bright lights...and in next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost mindless subhumanity. Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.
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The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable
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To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.
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... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
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When the individual feels, the community reels.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.
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