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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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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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No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.
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From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
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Can you say something about nothing?
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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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People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
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Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Try LSD, 100mg intramuscular... I thought so.
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Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.
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Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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I've never discussed my writing with others much, but I don't believe it can do any harm. I don't think that there's any risk that ideas or materials will evaporate.
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... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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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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All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time
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What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.
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Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust
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