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Everyone thinks this way at some point. The important thing is to power through and get to learning. If you really don't have the time Let Me Handle Your Analytics.
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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Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth I paid too.
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Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
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But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.
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To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.
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I ate civilization. It poisoned me I was defiled. And then, he added in a lower tone, I ate my own wickedness.
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...it is not what one has experienced but what one does with what one has experienced that matters.
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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.
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Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
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Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
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Every man's memory is his private literature.
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From the internal reality, by which I means the totality of psychological experiences, it [science] actually separates us. Art, for example, deals with many more aspects of this internal reality than does science, which confines itself deliberately and by convention to the study of one very limited class of experiences the experiences of sense.
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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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Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
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A man can smile and smile and be a villain.
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Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.
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