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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.
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Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.
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Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Pully, hauly, tug with a will the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.
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It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests itself as a way of satisfying the lust for power or the climber's craving for position and social distinction.
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Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.
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I'm sick. I've eaten civilisation and I'm sick.
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Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.
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There was a thing called Heaven but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.
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No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.
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Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using - you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?
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Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.
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Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.
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Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead.
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I like being myself. Myself and nasty.
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Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth I paid too.
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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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One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.
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