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God: a gaseous vertebrate.

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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And that, put in the Director sententiously, that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.
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I think we have to prepare the mind in one way or another to accept the great uprush or downrush, whichever you like to call it, of the greater non-self.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.
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To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations.
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In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.
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People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
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Only times and places, only names and ghosts.
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Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
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The social body persists although the component cells may change.
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Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.
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The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.
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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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Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit.
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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the by-product of other activities.
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