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A man can smile and smile and be a villain.

Aldous Huxley

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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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Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.
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The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.
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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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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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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Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.
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Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.
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which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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From the internal reality, by which I means the totality of psychological experiences, it [science] actually separates us. Art, for example, deals with many more aspects of this internal reality than does science, which confines itself deliberately and by convention to the study of one very limited class of experiences the experiences of sense.
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At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.
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Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity
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Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
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We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.
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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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Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
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Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope in this way to atone for past sins and avoid future punishments it is also because they long to visit the mind's antipodes and do some visionary sightseeing.
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Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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