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

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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
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London.
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Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake it is a pond.
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It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.
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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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A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world - intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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A love of nature keeps no factories busy.
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he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular
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Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
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Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
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Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.
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Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust
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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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Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead.
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Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.
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Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!
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Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.
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To his dog, every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs.
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Most loverspicture to themselves, in their mistresses, a secret reality, beyond and different from what they see every day. They are in love with somebody else--their own invention. And sometimes there is a secret reality and sometimes reality and appearance are the same. The discovery, in either case, is likely to cause a shock.
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Proportion ... You can't help thinking about it in these London streets, where it doesn't exist ... It's like listening to a symphony of cats to walk along them. Senseless discords and a horrible disorder all the way ... We need no barbarians from outside they're on the premises, all the time.
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