Every man’s memory is his private literature.
ALDOUS HUXLEYDon’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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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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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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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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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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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