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Aldous Huxley Quotes

English - Novelist | July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

Men War Cold Blood Personal Absurd

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

Work People See How Really

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

History Consistent Revolutionary Sade

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

Wish Always Rebellious Sons Fathers

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

Work Art Man Image Europe Own

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Pain Laughter Human Over Pleasure

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

Good Culture World Pay Leisure Paid

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

Love Habit You More Emotional Up

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Good Soul Book Bad Labor Write

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

Human Hang Like Human Beings Either

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

Born Two Cut Make Victims Takes

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.

Appearance Fools Human First Dislike

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