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An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Found Intellectual Interesting More One Thing Person Sex Than Thing

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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?

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: After Against Anything Art Artist Ever Good Happy He Horrible Life Perhaps Protest Suffer Want Would

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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Adult After Arrested Been Chance Child-Like Cocoon Continuing Contrary Convention Develop Development Given Habit He Himself Long Man Middle-Aged Most On The Contrary Themselves Who Whose

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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

~Aldous Huxley

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The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: About Actually Always Appearance Been Beings Dislike Dread Even Familiar First Fools Generally Hence Human Human Beings Innovators Madmen Majority Notions Persecuted Vast Vast Majority Which

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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

~Aldous Huxley

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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Ability Done Education Like Make Most Thing Valuable Whether You Yourself

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Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

~Aldous Huxley

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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

~Aldous Huxley

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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

~Aldous Huxley

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: July 26th, 1894

Died: November 22nd, 1963

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