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What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
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Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.
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Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure as a monster he was superb.
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Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.
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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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But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.
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In life, man proposes, God disposes.
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To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. Exclusiveness will add to the pleasure of being several, but at one and secrecy will intensify it almost to ecstasy.
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Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the higher life.
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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
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All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol none of their defects.
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For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.
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Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.
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The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.
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he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular
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As late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads of plate and bedspreads, of carpets and tapestries.
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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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No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages.
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