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...it is not what one has experienced but what one does with what one has experienced that matters.

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.
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Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
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The thing that impresses me most about this country is its hopefulness. It is this which distinguishes it from Europe, where there is hopeless depression and fear.
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Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology.
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A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world - intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man.
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I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.
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I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example.
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Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.
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[I am not] the captain of my soul I am only its noisiest passenger.
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In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.
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Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be
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The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
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It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.
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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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