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Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!

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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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Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously, it was these flowers, it was anything that I - or rather the blessed Not-I - cared to look at.
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...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable
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That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.
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Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.
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Two hours. One hundred and twenty minutes. Anything might be done in that time. Anything. Nothing. Oh, he had had hundreds of hours, and what had he done with them? Wasted them, spilt the precious minutes as though his reservoir were inexhaustible.
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The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.
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Love casts out fear but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.
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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds?
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There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
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... one reads, above all, 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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It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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