English - Novelist | July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
Aldous Huxley
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Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
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That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.
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Every man's memory is his private literature.
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Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
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There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
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The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
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What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
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What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
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Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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