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[I am not] the captain of my soul I am only its noisiest passenger.
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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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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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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Home, home -- a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space an understerilized prison darkness, disease, and smells.
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Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it.
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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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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.
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Love casts out fear but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.
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One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.
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In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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Suddenly to realise that one is sitting, damned, among the other damned--it is a most disquieting experience so disquieting thatmost of us react to it by immediately plunging more deeply into our particular damnation in the hope, generally realized, that we may be able, at least for a time, to stifle our revolutionary knowledge.
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Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!
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These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.
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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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We can't allow science to undo its own good work.
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Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
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I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners.A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock.
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