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People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.

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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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These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.
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Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful -- if strenuously led -- as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress.
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The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment.
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Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.
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Only times and places, only names and ghosts.
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Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life the individual is nothing Nature cares only for the species.
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Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers treat them to amplified band music, bright lights...and in next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost mindless subhumanity. Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many.
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The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable
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We live together, we act on, and react to, one another but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.
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Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
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The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
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