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I don't care where I'm from, nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.

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
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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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Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity
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... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
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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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Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.
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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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Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust
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Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all its members. When we of the great Culture Family meet, we exchange reminiscences about Grandfather Homer, and that awful old Dr. Johnson, and Aunt Sappho, and poor Johnny Keats.
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The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.
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In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being as we are, so we know.
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Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.
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But then people don't read literature in order to understand they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.
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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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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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The proper study of mankind is books.
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[I am not] the captain of my soul I am only its noisiest passenger.
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We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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