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Aldous Huxley

Born: July 26, 1894

Died: November 22, 1963

Nationality: English

Occupation: Novelist, writer

Biography: Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts.

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Aldous Huxley

“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.”

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“A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.”

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“A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.”

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Source/Notes: Complete Essays: 1936-1938 (2001 edition), Ivan R. Dee Publisher - ISBN: 9781566633949

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“A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.”

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“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.”

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“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

- Aldous Huxley

Source/Notes: The Rest is Silence - Music at Night and Other Essays (1931)

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“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.”

- Aldous Huxley

Source/Notes: Vijaya in Island (1962)

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“Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.”

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“An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.”

- Aldous Huxley

Source/Notes: As quoted in Discovering Evolutionary Ecology: Bringing Together Ecology And Evolution (2006) by Peter J. Mayhew, p. 24. Also in: Forbes, Volume 162, Issues 10-14 (1998), p. 396

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“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.”

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“Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.”

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“Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.”

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“Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.”

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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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