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I am I, and I wish I weren't.

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
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.
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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
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But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.
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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
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Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.
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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.
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The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.
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For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of Battles but what an outcry there would be if anyone spoke of him as the God of Brothels.
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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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Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
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Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.
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Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation.
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Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.
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One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight interruption in the ongoing march of entropy.
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The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of eternity into the soul, and through which love can pass from one soul in time to another soul in time.
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A large city cannot be experientially known its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
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