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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
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Science Fiction Writer
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes.
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I don't care where I'm from, nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
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The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.
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War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.
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If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.
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The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.
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There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.
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Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
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Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
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Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?
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After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
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You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk.
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Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
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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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One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.
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Henri IV's feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation.
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There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
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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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The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several million people were killed in a recent war and half the world ruined but we all busily go on in courses that make another event of the same sort inevitable. Experientia docet? Experientia doesn't.
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