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I'd rather be myself, he said. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
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Science Fiction Writer
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
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When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.
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People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
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Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.
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I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. 'The first thing,' I said, 'is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write.'
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.
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...it is not what one has experienced but what one does with what one has experienced that matters.
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Can you say something about nothing?
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For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.
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In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.
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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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Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
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Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.
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Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using - you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?
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Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect.
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I'm pretty good at inventing phrases - you know, the sort of words that suddenly make you jump, almost as though you'd sat on a pin, they seem so new and exciting even though they're about something hypnopaedically* obvious. But that doesn't seem enough. It's not enough for the phrases to be good what you make with them ought to be good too.
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