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No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.
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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Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
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The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.
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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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People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.
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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.
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No Romeo-and-Juliet acts, no nonsense about Love with a large L, none of that popular song claptrap with its skies of blue, dreams come true, heaven with you. Just sensuality for its own sake.
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Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.
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We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like and if the art we like is bad then our thinking and feeling will be bad. And if the thinking and feeling of most of the individuals composing a society is bad, is not that society in danger?
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Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed. All the trains--the few that there were--stopped at all the stations. Denis knew the names of those stations by heart. Bole, Tritton, Spavin Delawarr, Knipswich for Timpany, West Bowlby, and, finally, Camlet-on-the-Water.
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The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.
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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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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
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What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Cleanliness is next to fordliness.
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Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.
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So now you can let go, my darling...Let go...Let go of this poor old body. You don't need it anymore. Let it fall away from you. Leave it lying there like a pile of worn-out clothes...Go on, my darling, go on into the Light, into the peace, into the living peace of the Clear Light.
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All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol none of their defects.
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