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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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That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.
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One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.
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The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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All right then, said the Savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.
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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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When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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If you want to write, keep cats.
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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 what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.
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Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.
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Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?
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Wild inside raging, writhing—yes, writhing was the word, writhing with desire. But outwardly he was hopelessly tame outwardly—baa, baa, baa.
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Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east.
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In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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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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Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity
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We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.
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