Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
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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. ALDOUS HUXLEY If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psy... ALDOUS HUXLEY Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. ALDOUS HUXLEY I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is on... ALDOUS HUXLEY Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same ... 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
Its the only thing we havent 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. ALDOUS HUXLEY