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Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Godalming
Surrey
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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Nothing short of everything will really do.
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Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.
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Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.
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If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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Only times and places, only names and ghosts.
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I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.
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The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
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he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular
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It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.
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Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.
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Everyone belongs to everyone else.
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Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.
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