The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMan is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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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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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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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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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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