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There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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I'd rather be myself, he said. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.
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Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.
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It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must Have a Stop)
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Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.
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All of us desire a better state of society. But society cannot become better before two great tasks are performed.Unless peace can be firmly established and the prevailing obsession with money and power profoundly modified, there is no hope of any desirable change being made.
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The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
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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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Civilization is sterilization.
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Sunsets and death death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.
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Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.
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Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.
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Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
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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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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.
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The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
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Can you say something about nothing?
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The flower of the present rosily blossomed.
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