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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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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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Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
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Nothing short of everything will really do.
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It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.
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The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
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I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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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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The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
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Happiness is never grand.
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Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust
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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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Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.
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... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
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No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.
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The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
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