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Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
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Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.
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There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
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Science in itself is morally neutral it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.
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Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
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The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
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One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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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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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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The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
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But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.
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