Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIt’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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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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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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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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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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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.
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