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Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east.

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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Science Fiction Writer
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.
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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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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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.
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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. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.
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Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?
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If you want to write, keep cats.
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In the world of ideas everything was clear in life all was obscure, embroiled.
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It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
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What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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