Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here"
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What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
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What the cinema can do better than literature or the spoken drama is to be fantastic.
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What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
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What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
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Who lives longer? the man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.
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Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?
[Women]
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Words are good servants but bad masters.
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
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Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
[Writers And Writing]
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You can't consume much if you sit still and read books
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You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.
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You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religions. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, intelligent enough.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
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Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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