If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
ALDOUS HUXLEYEvery man’s memory is his private literature.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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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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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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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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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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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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