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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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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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All right then, said the Savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.
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The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.
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If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.
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We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.
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For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of Battles but what an outcry there would be if anyone spoke of him as the God of Brothels.
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When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.
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And no wonder for the new technique of subliminal projection, as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.
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A love of nature keeps no factories busy.
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Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
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Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.
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Ignore death up to the last moment then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.
Aldous Huxley
Nothing short of everything will really do.
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Blood of the world, time staunchless flows The wound is mortal and is mine.
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