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Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.
Aldous Huxley
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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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By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay.
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God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.
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Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
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To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect.
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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
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Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.
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A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world - intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.
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The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society Providence takes its cue from men.
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Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
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