English - Novelist | July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
Aldous Huxley
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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
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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.
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Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
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Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
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It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'
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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?
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The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
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That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
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Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
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The proper study of mankind is books.
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Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
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