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" Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. "
Aldous Huxley
Divided
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Thought
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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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" Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. "
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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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" Experience teaches only the teachable. "
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" The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. "
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" Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. "
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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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" Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. "
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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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Want
" 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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" The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. "
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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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Feeling
" 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. "
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Takes
Make
Cut
" Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. "
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Cease
Ignored
Facts
" Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. "
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Best
Doing
" There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. "
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Universe
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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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" To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. "
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Hence
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" A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. "
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Secret
Over
Man
" Several excuses are always less convincing than one. "
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" Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. "
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Children
" 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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" 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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" Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations. "
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