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A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.

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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The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.
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I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven.
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...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.
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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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The thing that impresses me most about this country is its hopefulness. It is this which distinguishes it from Europe, where there is hopeless depression and fear.
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Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown.
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Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.
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Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?
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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
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... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.
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Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.
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It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.
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Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
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Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.
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The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.
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