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Aldous Huxley
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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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There was a thing called Heaven but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.
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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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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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Try LSD, 100mg intramuscular... I thought so.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world - intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man.
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One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure as a monster he was superb.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol none of their defects.
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I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.
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One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.
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The only consistent people are the dead
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When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.
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Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.
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Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny.
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Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.
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Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes. . . . it was essential that they should keep on going to the country, even though they hated it.
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Did you eat something that didn't agree with you? asked Bernard. The Savage nodded I ate civilization.
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Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.
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