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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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  • An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
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  • An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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  • Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.
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  • At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction.
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  • At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.
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  • Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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  • Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.
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  • Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.
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  • Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
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  • But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.
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  • But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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  • But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.
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  • But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.
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  • Can you say something about nothing?
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  • Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
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  • Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
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  • Civilization is sterilization.
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  • Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.
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  • Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
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  • Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
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