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Words are good servants but bad masters.

Aldous Huxley

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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
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Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
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In the world of ideas everything was clear in life all was obscure, embroiled.
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It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.
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Proportion ... You can't help thinking about it in these London streets, where it doesn't exist ... It's like listening to a symphony of cats to walk along them. Senseless discords and a horrible disorder all the way ... We need no barbarians from outside they're on the premises, all the time.
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Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
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