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These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.
Quote by -Aldous Huxley
Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too.
Quote by -Aldous Huxley
Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.
Quote by -Aldous Huxley
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
Quote by -Aldous Huxley
Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.
Quote by -Aldous Huxley
The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
Quote by -Aldous Huxley
But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.
Quote by -Aldous Huxley
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.
Quote by -Aldous Huxley
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.
Quote by -Aldous Huxley
Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.
Quote by -Aldous Huxley
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
Quote by -Aldous Huxley
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
Quote by -Aldous Huxley
There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.
Quote by -Aldous Huxley
One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.
Quote by -Aldous Huxley
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Quote by -Aldous Huxley
I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.
Quote by -Aldous Huxley
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
Quote by -Aldous Huxley
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
Quote by -Aldous Huxley
The great chasm between the thing I say, & the thing I would say, wd be quite dispiriting to me, in spite even of such kindnesses as yours, if the desire did not master the despondency.
Quote by -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak, And placed it by thee on a golden throne, -- And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!) Is by thee only, whom I love alone.
Quote by -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The widest land Doom takes to part us, leaves thy heart in mine With pulses that beat double. What I do And what I dream include thee, as the wine Must taste of its own grapes.
Quote by -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I begin to think that none are so bold as the timid, when they are fairly roused.
Quote by -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I am one who could have forgotten the plague, listening to Boccaccio's stories; and I am not ashamed of it.
Quote by -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.
Quote by -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me.
Quote by -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Will that light come again, As now these tears come...falling hot and real!
Quote by -Elizabeth Barrett Browning