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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
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Well... ...That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being here and now.
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Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.
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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
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One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.
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All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city they merely inhabit it.
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Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
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But every one belongs to every one else
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In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months.
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The trouble with fiction, said John Rivers, is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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In real life there is no such person as the average man.
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There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
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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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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.
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