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Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy.

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
Energy
Exclusiveness
Monogamy
Narrow
Impulse
Romance
Everywhere
Family

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Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
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Consider the problem of over-population. Rapidly mounting human numbers are pressing ever more heavily on natural resources. What is to be done?... The annual increase of numbers should be reduced. But how? We are given two choices -- famine, pestilence and war on the one hand, birth control on the other. Most of us choose birth control.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?
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The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.
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At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.
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Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
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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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Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet.
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Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead.
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Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.
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I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals it cannot be mass-produced.
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The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
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