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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. "
Aldous Huxley
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" De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. "
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" 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. "
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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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" One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. "
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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. "
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" There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done. "
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" Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. "
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" Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. "
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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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" Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions. "
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" 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. "
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" The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. "
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" Experience teaches only the teachable. "
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" Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness. "
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" There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. "
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" So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable. "
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" To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. "
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" My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger. "
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" Maybe this world is another planet's hell. "
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" God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. "
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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. "
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" We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. "
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" Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. "
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