My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
ALDOUS HUXLEYLiberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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.
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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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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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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.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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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 one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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