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

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.
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I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.
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Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
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Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.
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We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.
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I'd rather be myself, he said. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.
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For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.
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Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering and violent. Taking their cue from an unfortunate remark in Genesis, Catholic moralists have regarded animals as mere things which men do right to regard for their own ends. . . .
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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
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Henri IV's feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation.
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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
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Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.
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Civilization is sterilization.
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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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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
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And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else
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If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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