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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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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this world, during this life, without any least reference to God, or to gods either great or small.
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Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time the Gray Life.
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Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all its members. When we of the great Culture Family meet, we exchange reminiscences about Grandfather Homer, and that awful old Dr. Johnson, and Aunt Sappho, and poor Johnny Keats.
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A large city cannot be experientially known its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
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The business of a seer is to see and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.
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Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the current, the height and strength of the barrier. The unchecked stream flows smoothly down its appointed channels into a calm well being.
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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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Nothing is more dreadful than a cold, unimpassioned indulgence. And love infallibly becomes cold and unimpassioned when it is too lightly made.
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There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
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The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That art thou') the Atman, or immanent eternal Self, is one with Brahman, the Absolute Principle of all existence and the last end of every human being, is to discover the fact for himself, to find out who he really is.
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Everyone belongs to everyone else.
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I'd rather be myself, he said. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.
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Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.
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When the individual feels, the community reels.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Let us be kinder to one another.
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Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the higher life.
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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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