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Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured with the beauty of words.

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
Mind
Alliteration
Echoing
Wandered
Corridors
Beauty
Point
Dimpled
Words
Assonance
Ever
Enamoured

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We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is to be gained. So far as we are concerned, any old means is good enough. But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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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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All right then, said the Savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.
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Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.
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In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being as we are, so we know.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.
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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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I'd rather be myself, he said. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.
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Henri IV's feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation.
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It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.
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Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.
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Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to believe that general artistic culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity.
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Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics are not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything, will really do.
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Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful -- if strenuously led -- as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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