Aldous Huxley Quotes
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When will you women understand that one isn’t insanely in love? All one asks for is a quiet life, which you won’t allow one to have.
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I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. 'The first thing,' I said, 'is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write.'
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That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.
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'If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,' said Jefferson, 'it expects what never was and never will be.'
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Who lives longer? the man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.
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From the internal reality, by which I means the totality of psychological experiences, it science actually separates us. Art, for example, deals with many more aspects of this internal reality than does science, which confines itself deliberately and by convention to the study of one very limited class of experiences-the experiences of sense.
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After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.