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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example.
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I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in the profound and unfathomable mystery of life which has a sort of divine quality about it.
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After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
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I had to depend on Braille for my reading and guide for my walking...I am now wearing no glasses, reading and all without strain...by taking lessons in seeing...optometrists hate the method.
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The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.
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Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations.
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If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.
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People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.
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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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Try LSD, 100mg intramuscular... I thought so.
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Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.
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Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.
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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.
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At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction.
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By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay.
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Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
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Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.
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The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories.
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