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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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Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.
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The trouble with fiction, said John Rivers, is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
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Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences, human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God.
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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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In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.
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Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness.
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I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. 'The first thing,' I said, 'is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write.'
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It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it's healthy that people should have this experience.
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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
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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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An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.
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Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.
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One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.
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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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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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