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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.
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Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
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We can't allow science to undo its own good work.
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If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.
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Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
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It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'
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[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.
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Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.
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The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything
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The only consistent people are the dead
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This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.
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I'd rather be myself, he said. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.
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Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.
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But every one belongs to every one else
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Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
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