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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
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Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
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Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny.
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I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.
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I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.
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People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
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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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All that happens means something nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.
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Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything
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That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.
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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
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Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all its members. When we of the great Culture Family meet, we exchange reminiscences about Grandfather Homer, and that awful old Dr. Johnson, and Aunt Sappho, and poor Johnny Keats.
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Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity
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Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences, human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God.
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