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For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

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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Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay.
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Pully, hauly, tug with a will the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.
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Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.
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Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Results only come to those who master the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, of letting go as a person in order that the immanent and transcendent unknown quantity may take hold. We cannot make ourselves understand the most we can do is to foster a state of mind in which understanding may come to us.
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Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.
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No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.
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And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else
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The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes
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A gramme is better than a damn.
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I am I, and I wish I weren't.
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