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Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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Most loverspicture to themselves, in their mistresses, a secret reality, beyond and different from what they see every day. They are in love with somebody else--their own invention. And sometimes there is a secret reality and sometimes reality and appearance are the same. The discovery, in either case, is likely to cause a shock.
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Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
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...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.
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Civilization is sterilization.
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I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.
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The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next.
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