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

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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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Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.
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God: a gaseous vertebrate.
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Did you eat something that didn't agree with you? asked Bernard. The Savage nodded I ate civilization.
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Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
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The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same.
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The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface .
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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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But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.
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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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All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.
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Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.
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For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of Battles but what an outcry there would be if anyone spoke of him as the God of Brothels.
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The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.
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I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.
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Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London.
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Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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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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Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
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Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.
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