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Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

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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
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Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.
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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.
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The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.
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Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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The only truly consistent are the dead.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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An irrelevance, and your life's altered.
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Civilization is sterilization.
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Cleanliness is next to fordliness.
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Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
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At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction.
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For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain from the minus sign proceeded the whole theory of negative quantities.
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But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
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Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
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