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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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Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.
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Hitler's dictatorship", he said, ,,differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. It was the first dictatorship in the present period of modern technical developement, a dicttorship which made complete use of all technical means for the domination of its own country. Through technical devices like the radio and the loud-speaker, eighty million people were deprived of independent thought. It was thereby possible to s..
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Stupidity or reason? Oh, there was no choice now. It was imbecility every time.
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Aldous Huxley |
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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
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Aldous Huxley |
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What the cinema can do better than literature or the spoken drama is to be fantastic.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong.
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Aldous Huxley |
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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
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Aldous Huxley |
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To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
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Aldous Huxley |
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Aldous Huxley |
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The trouble with fiction... is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Aldous Huxley |
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Words are good servants but bad masters.
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Aldous Huxley |
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Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
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Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.
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Aldous Huxley |
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The proper study of mankind is books.
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Aldous Huxley |
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Aldous Huxley |
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Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
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Aldous Huxley |
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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Aldous Huxley |
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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
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There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men.
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To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.
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Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
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After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
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Aldous Huxley |
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Experience teaches only the teachable...
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Aldous Huxley |
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You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.
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Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.
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Aldous Huxley |
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God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness.
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People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.
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Aldous Huxley |
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Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
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Aldous Huxley |
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One unscrupulous distortion of the truth tends to beget other and opposite distortions.
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And suddenly I had an inkling of what it must feel like to be mad.
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Is it agreeable?" somebody asked.
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Aldous Huxley |
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The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth.
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Aldous Huxley |
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Aldous Huxley |
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.
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Aldous Huxley |
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The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.
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Aldous Huxley |
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Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
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Aldous Huxley |
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.
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Aldous Huxley |
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Who is going to educate the human race in the principles and practice of conservation?
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Aldous Huxley |
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In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.
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