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People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.
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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You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk.
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The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?
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The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.
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To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.
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What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.
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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.
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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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If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
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Words are good servants but bad masters.
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Results only come to those who master the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, of letting go as a person in order that the immanent and transcendent unknown quantity may take hold. We cannot make ourselves understand the most we can do is to foster a state of mind in which understanding may come to us.
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No Romeo-and-Juliet acts, no nonsense about Love with a large L, none of that popular song claptrap with its skies of blue, dreams come true, heaven with you. Just sensuality for its own sake.
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Wherever we turn we find that the real obstacles to peace are human will and feeling, human convictions, prejudices, opinions. If we want to get rid of war we must get rid first of all of its psychological causes. Only when this has been done will the rulers of the nations even desire to get rid of the economic and political causes.
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But then people don't read literature in order to understand they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.
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