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I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
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Science Fiction Writer
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of each of us would some day depend upon our winning or losing a game of chess. Do you not think that we should all consider it to be our primary duty to learn at least the names of the pieces and how to position them on the chessboard?
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I've never discussed my writing with others much, but I don't believe it can do any harm. I don't think that there's any risk that ideas or materials will evaporate.
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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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Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.
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If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
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Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it.
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Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.
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Ignore death up to the last moment then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?
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Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain from the minus sign proceeded the whole theory of negative quantities.
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It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
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