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Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better

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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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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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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Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
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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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A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.
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All that happens means something nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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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Proportion ... You can't help thinking about it in these London streets, where it doesn't exist ... It's like listening to a symphony of cats to walk along them. Senseless discords and a horrible disorder all the way ... We need no barbarians from outside they're on the premises, all the time.
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To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.
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Blood of the world, time staunchless flows The wound is mortal and is mine.
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Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.
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Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown.
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Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the strainings of the Costive at stool.
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I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.
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