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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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Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.
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If you want to write, keep cats.
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The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several million people were killed in a recent war and half the world ruined but we all busily go on in courses that make another event of the same sort inevitable. Experientia docet? Experientia doesn't.
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That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
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Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.
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Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.
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My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism .
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Everyone belongs to everyone else.
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But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
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I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they provide a picture of life now and of life in the past, but also as vehicles for the expression of general philosophic ideas, religious ideas, social ideas.
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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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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
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On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake it is a pond.
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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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What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.
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The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.
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Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable.
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In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.
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