Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
ALDOUS HUXLEYIf one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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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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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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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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