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I had to depend on Braille for my reading and guide for my walking...I am now wearing no glasses, reading and all without strain...by taking lessons in seeing...optometrists hate the method.

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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Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.
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Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
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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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...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.
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In the world of ideas everything was clear in life all was obscure, embroiled.
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The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.
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If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.
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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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