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From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
By Aldous Huxley
Who lives longer: the man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or the man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes till ninety-five? On...
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Why any quick-witted and sensitive person should feel ashamed of having said good-by to politics, he couldn't imagine. The sordid intrigues be...
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When truth is nothing but the truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world. In nature there are always ...
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The whole story of the universe is implicit in any part of it. The meditative eye can look through any single object and see, as through a win...
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The philosophy of action for action, power for the sake of power, had become an established orthodoxy. 'Thou has conquered, O go-getting Babbi...
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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little ...
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Real orgies are never so exciting as pornographic books. In a volume by Pierre Louys all the girls are young and their figures perfect; there'...
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Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty.... Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting i...
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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, bu...
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Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon ...
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Nobody who has any kind of creative imagination can possibly be anything but disappointed with real life.... Of course, you could always argue...
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My dear young friend ... civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency. In a...
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Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Drama begins where...
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a com...
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Give me Catholicism every time. Father Cheeryble with his thurible; Father Chatterjee with his liturgy. What fun they have with all their char...
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Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. E...
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Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all; it panders to lower instincts than the aesthe...
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Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the str...
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Cynical realism—it's the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
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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 ...
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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority o...
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... that's what living happens to be ... the physiological denial of reverence and good manners and Christianity.... At your age one's quite o...
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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.
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Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them miserable.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Technology
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To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. Exclusiveness will add to the pleasure of being several, but at one; and secrecy will intensify it almost to ecstasy.
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