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One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.

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
Seventh
Monday
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Life

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Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously, it was these flowers, it was anything that I - or rather the blessed Not-I - cared to look at.
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...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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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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Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.
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People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
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Words are good servants but bad masters.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to believe that general artistic culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity.
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I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.
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Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being as we are, so we know.
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When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.
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Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.
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A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.
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That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
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A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh air, he will have to overcome certain physical repugnance before he can bring himself to put those principles into practice.
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Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?
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Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.
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