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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.

Aldous Huxley

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Arrest Chance Child Continue Contrary Develop Development Given Himself Like Man
The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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Cause Kill Name never People Publican Secret Sinner Tell Torture
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Arise City Famous Long Make Men Miserable People Personality Person So Worship
Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Even Floursihm Country Foot Know Liberty Near Permanently War
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Art Better Desire Do Dread Greater Intelligent Nothing Population Responsibility Told
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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Anyone Daily Done Letting Lord Million Own Petition Prayer Repeat Slightest Third
Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Become Ceil Every Floor Reach
Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Come Drug Honey Hug Miss Till
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Know Mad Make Shall Truth
Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Except Higher Ignore Longer More Must Persist Price Really Terrible
The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Acco Doing Greatest Impish Propaganda Refraining Something Triumph
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Great Knowledge Pleasure Torrance Way
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Hardly Healthy Human Left Made Medical Progress Such Sze Tremendous
Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Between Choice Follow Made Madman Madness Man Reason Unhestaingly Word
Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Behave Essentially Good Naturally Sane Try
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Beauty Beholder Both Holder Intoxicate Wine Worse

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