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Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
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Science Fiction Writer
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Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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Wild inside raging, writhing—yes, writhing was the word, writhing with desire. But outwardly he was hopelessly tame outwardly—baa, baa, baa.
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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.
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To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the by-product of other activities.
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The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals.
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I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
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The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.
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In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events on the contrary things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words.
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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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Did you eat something that didn't agree with you? asked Bernard. The Savage nodded I ate civilization.
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The more stitches, the less riches.
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No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.
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Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.
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