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A gramme is better than a damn.

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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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.
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But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
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In real life there is no such person as the average man.
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Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.
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Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.
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The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.
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