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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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  • If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
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  • If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe.
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  • If you don't gamble, you'll never win.
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  • If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.
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  • If you want to write, keep cats.
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  • Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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  • In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months.
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  • In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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  • In real life there is no such thing as the average man.
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  • In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.
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  • In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.
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  • Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.
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  • Industrial man -a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.
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  • It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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  • It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.
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  • It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
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  • It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
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  • It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
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  • Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God.
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  • Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.
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