But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
— Aldous Huxley
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
-Aldous Huxley
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The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited
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“For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.”
—ALDOUS HUXLEY | “SERMONS IN CATS” >> MUSIC AT NIGHT AND OTHER ESSAYS [1931]
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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“The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”
— Aldous Huxley
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