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I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.


Aldous Huxley

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JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT I always thought he ate and breathed civil rights.
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JOE E. LEWIS While I was waiting...I ate your lunch.
SUZANNE COLLINS When I was little, I ate a bag of cocaine.
DANIEL SUSTAITA I was very skinny, but that was just my natural build. I always ate sensibly - being thin was in my ...
TWIGGY The guy was infected with bird flu because he took a sick chicken, slaughtered it and and then ate i...
THAKSIN SHINAWATRA The guy was infected with bird flu because he took a sick chicken, slaughtered it and and then ate i...
THAKSIN SHINAWATRA If I ate it would go right to my knee.
JOHN LENNON A fan almost pulled me off stage once, and that was a little scary because I totally almost ate it!
MADISON MARLOW I think she ate a salad and some soup.
And loneliness.
She ate that, too.
MARKUS ZUSAK Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my c...
MAURICE SENDAK I went to sit in the bus station and think this over. I ate another apple pie and ice cream; that’...
JACK KEROUAC If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud!
EMILIE AUTUMN In my 20s, I mostly ate burritos and nachos, with the occasional burger.
NEIL PATRICK HARRIS I ate a big steak in 1988 and never felt worse. That was it, boom, over. Never again.
BRYAN ADAMS Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy.
R. LEE ERMEY Once I ate it, I started to feel better. I thank the coach for giving it to me.
ENEIL POLYNICE He played basketball, but he ate lunch with me in the cafeteria last year. I told him, 'You're going...
CHAD CARLSON I eat whatever the guy who beat me in the last race ate.
ALEX RATELLE When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally. I fried it and stewe...
LAURIE COLWIN He came back with a huge bowl. I'm sure there was half a gallon, and I ate the whole thing.
BOB GIULIANI I sat down and collected all of our eleven sales for the past six months and I added them all togeth...
BARBARA CORCORAN I bought a steamer. I ate a lot of vegetables. It was hard, but once I got into it everything was OK...
BRAD NELSON Being pregnant was the best time of my life because nothing could affect me. It was like a detox - I...
JULIA RESTOIN ROITFELD They got knocked into the toilet. My dog ate my homework. Oh, and it ate my pain medication. ... The...
MARC KLEINMAN But even with my minimal amount of fame, there are certain perks. Recently, I was at a movie premier...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Un mundo feliz, de Aldous Huxley, y 1984, de George Orwell. Esa
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN I lived my grief; I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else.
ROBIN HOBB Ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make you mad. Aldous Huxley
ALDOUS HUXLEY He often ate in a delicate manner.
LIU BIN I think that last batch of sea monkeys ate my cat!!!
NEIL LECKMAN Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would the...
JACK ADAMS I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he...
JULIA BARR He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFT There was nothing abstract or theoretical in his world. The stars had no significance. The sky was n...
WARREN EYSTER Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.
TOMMY COOPER To put it as simply as possible, I ate a god.
DREW HAYES My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Ald...
JANET FITCH I was the only kid in school who ate kippers on toast for breakfast.
BRUCE MATHEWS Sugared cheese?" I was skeptical. - "I ate the vegan birthday cake," Dorin noted. "Trust me, this wi...
BETH FANTASKEY I feel really stupid saying this. I ate too much, and it caused a little indigestion.
MICHELLE WIE If they found a chicken on the side of the road, they ate the chicken - then they ate the bones.
FRANK MEZZATESTA I was supposed to eat something new, so I tried the roasted soft squid. I ate just a bite of it. It ...
JASON KOTECKI I can remember 1987 when I had my first amateur fight in Michigan, weighing 64lb. I was 10 years old...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. After I cut off his penis, I sautéed it in rosemary butter and ate it"
"But did you go to a me...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I never really ate that bad, I just ate too much. It wasn't like I had to switch to whole wheat ...
PATRICK STUMP Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.
TOMMY COOPER He lived, ate and breathed showbiz,
ANDREW SOLT Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would...
JACK ADAMS I don't think people should be fed mesclun salad and chicken breast. My grandmother would serve ...
MARJORIE GUBELMANN As a bookish child, I would come to see the one-child policy as one of the most fascinating and biza...
MEI FONG Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese.
SUZANNE COLLINS It ate at me all year long. I know one play can't lose a game, but I didn't want it to happen this y...
ASHLEY CORRAL I was able to rationalize them away, thinking maybe it was something I ate, or I'm coming down with ...
GINA SMITH My father was an expert hunter, so we ate a lot of wild game when I was growing up in Montana. That ...
STEVE ALBINI I was born in Toronto and studied with the National Ballet of Canada. I went to school to study danc...
LAURIEANN GIBSON I don't know. Sometimes I try to say what's on my mind and it comes out sounding like I ate a dictio...
J.R. MOEHRINGER What I did to celebrate was I went home to my 535-square-foot apartment by myself and ate supper by ...
JOSH TURNER For our anniversary, my wife and I went to see Godzilla, and then we ate at Barnyard Venice, and it ...
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MELODY SOHAYEGH Anything else?"

Haymitch rises to go. "While I was waiting... I ate your lunch.
SUZANNE COLLINS Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.
WILLIAM RALPH INGE Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products
W. R. INGE I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti
THOMAS HARRIS Those pizzas I ate were for medicinal purposes.
AMY NEFTZGER That cake tasted good. But the cake in the garbage tasted better. It was the best cake I ever ate.
LORETTA ELLSWORTH As for will, woman should be considered superior to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of ...
DONNA WOOLFOLK CROSS I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
RUDYARD KIPLING When I was trying out for my first Olympics at 16, my family and coaches tried to regulate what I at...
ALICIA SACRAMONE But if one doesn't really exist, one wonders why..." she hesitated.
"Why one makes such a fuss ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY I ate as many of them as I wanted. I worked there.
JAKE SINCLAIR What Huxley teaches...
NEIL POSTMAN It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, ...
KEVIN KWAN My sister gave me a big bucket of Cool Whip. Isn't that awesome? For two weeks I basically watched E...
STEVE ZAHN The most I ever ate? In one sitting? Maybe four big plates of fried chicken, biscuits, chitlins, gra...
BRUCE SMITH My childhood was full of deep sorrows -- colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a ...
GEORGE ELIOT It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFT The Tea Party

I had a little tea party
This afternoon at three.
'Twas very smal...
JESSICA NELSON NORTH I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
BECK BENNETT I ate a whole 20-inch pizza by myself one time.
J. J. WATT And then as always, I saw the prayer coming at me.
And, as always, Number 1 killed me! Set me ...
JAMES PATTERSON I was very poor at certain times. And I had two dogs, boxers. I didn't have any money for food, and ...
ANDY WILLIAMS one when I ate turkey with the Screaming Eagles.
A. BUSH I ate mythology & dreamt'
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YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA I remember watching steak being cooked on TV and wanting to try it. As a special treat, my mother co...
NOBU MATSUHISA When I was 17, I worked at a bagel shop - I ate so many! I was also in all the school musicals, whic...
JENNA USHKOWITZ Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl coul...
OLIVIA WILDE Stayed over. Ate at my house and all.
CARL EADY In high school I was an outcast... I wasn't cool to hang out with. I ate my lunch in a bathroom ...
SHAY MITCHELL You fuck - you ate my cat!
KENDARE BLAKE One claimant has written to me describing it. They ate nothing. The smell was indescribable. The ste...
WILLIAM MARKS Most of the time, I ate it because I was running out of time and I just needed something to eat. I u...
GREG TRENT I'll remember 1994 as the year that I ... ate shit.
GREEN DAY I'm so proud of him. I just want to see him finish strong. He lost about 20 pounds in the summer, an...
WATSON BROWN One meal I'm constantly reminded about is when I ate kangaroo tail in the desert in Australia; i...
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
ALDOUS HUXLEY They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now"
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ALDOUS HUXLEY I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.
ALDOUS HUXLEY No social stability without individual stability.
ALDOUS HUXLEY I am I, and I wish I weren't.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resou...
ALDOUS HUXLEY A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's sou...
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
ALDOUS HUXLEY A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a m...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron whe...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manne...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirte...
ALDOUS HUXLEY It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes, and thanks to words, we have sunk to th...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
ALDOUS HUXLEY One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
ALDOUS HUXLEY That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons...
ALDOUS HUXLEY All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."
"Not to ment...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Every man's memory is his private literature.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or le...
ALDOUS HUXLEY After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those wh...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give plea...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most ignorance is invincible ignorance.We don't know because we don't want to know.
ALDOUS HUXLEY If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer th...
ALDOUS HUXLEY What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands a...
ALDOUS HUXLEY But no language is perfect, no vocabulary is adequate to the wealth of the given universe, no patter...
ALDOUS HUXLEY I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to ma...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emot...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality a...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of...
ALDOUS HUXLEY If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay -- in solid cash -- the tribute which philistinism...
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ALDOUS HUXLEY If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solit...
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ALDOUS HUXLEY There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of p...
ALDOUS HUXLEY People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
ALDOUS HUXLEY I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience teaches only the teachable.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
ALDOUS HUXLEY We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however pa...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behav...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the k...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on t...
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ALDOUS HUXLEY We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of gen...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
ALDOUS HUXLEY A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the d...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The only completely consistent people are the dead.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. S...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed -- a compas...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever gi...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEY There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
ALDOUS HUXLEY There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.
ALDOUS HUXLEY My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof -- that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-g...
ALDOUS HUXLEY To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, ex...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given hi...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, how...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the m...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
ALDOUS HUXLEY A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a sk...
ALDOUS HUXLEY One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nati...
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Meanwhile, the self can stand in the way of the Not-Self, interfering with the free flow of spiritua...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Pain was a fascinating horror
ALDOUS HUXLEY The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. An...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can neve...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distres...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are no...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing w...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the star...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance
ALDOUS HUXLEY The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in t...
ALDOUS HUXLEY It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of o...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
ALDOUS HUXLEY There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
ALDOUS HUXLEY If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it cla...
ALDOUS HUXLEY At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motiva...
ALDOUS HUXLEY An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a v...
ALDOUS HUXLEY So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cea...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol....
ALDOUS HUXLEY Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
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