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Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

English writer

Lived from: 1894 - 1963

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 26 july 1894 Died: 22 november 1963

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  • The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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  • The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
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  • The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories.
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  • The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.
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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.
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  • The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.
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  • The trouble with fiction, said John Rivers, is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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  • The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.
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  • The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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  • The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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  • The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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  • There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
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  • There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure.
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  • There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.
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  • There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
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  • There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
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  • There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
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  • There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
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  • They failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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  • This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.
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