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Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising. (Aldous Huxley)
The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms. View quote
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Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital. View quote
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I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence. View quote
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In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions. View quote
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The thing that impresses me most about this country is its hopefulness. It is this which distinguishes it from Europe, where there is hopeless depression and fear. View quote
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Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the ''higher life.'' View quote
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The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes. View quote
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of death the poets have eloquently spoken. They command the world's sympathy. But there are also discreditable anguishes, no less excruciating than the others, but of which the sufferer dare not, cannot speak. The anguish of thwarted desire, for example. View quote
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Cant is always rather nauseating but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic. View quote
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The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature? (Aldous Huxley)
Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of transforming children into fully developed adults, it turns out students of the natural sciences who are completely unaware of Nature as the primary fact of experience, it inflicts upon the world students of the humanities who know nothing of humanity, their own or anyone else's. View quote
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If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military. View quote
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All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects. View quote
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Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process. View quote
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The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men. View quote
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The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist. View quote
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God in the safe and Ford on the shelves. View quote
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But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded it is supposed to be one-pointed -- a compass, not a weathercock. View quote
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Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty. View quote
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Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance. (Aldous Huxley)
Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre. View quote
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A large city cannot be experientially known its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it. View quote
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Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta. View quote
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Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer. View quote
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