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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
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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The more you know, the more you see
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We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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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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Blood of the world, time staunchless flows The wound is mortal and is mine.
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The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.
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In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to believe that general artistic culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity.
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Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
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Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life the individual is nothing Nature cares only for the species.
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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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which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.
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Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.
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Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.
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Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake it is a pond.
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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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Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.
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There was a thing called Heaven but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.
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