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In real life there is no such person as the average man.

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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[I am not] the captain of my soul I am only its noisiest passenger.
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To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
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For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this world, during this life, without any least reference to God, or to gods either great or small.
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I'm pretty good at inventing phrases - you know, the sort of words that suddenly make you jump, almost as though you'd sat on a pin, they seem so new and exciting even though they're about something hypnopaedically* obvious. But that doesn't seem enough. It's not enough for the phrases to be good what you make with them ought to be good too.
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Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.
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Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers treat them to amplified band music, bright lights...and in next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost mindless subhumanity. Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many.
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Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.
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Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.
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Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.
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One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.
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To his dog, every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs.
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Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.
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Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.
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