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Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.
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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The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
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Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
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And what strange voices they have! Sometimes like the complaining of small children sometimes like the noise of lambs.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes. . . . it was essential that they should keep on going to the country, even though they hated it.
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I am I, and I wish I weren't.
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There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
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Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.
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Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
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