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«If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners - let us thank heaven for hypocrisy»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
hypocrisy, practitioner, practitioners, snobs, starving
«In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.»
«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.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
Bureaucracies, bureaucracy, democracy, democratic, effectively, governed, highly, modern, necessarily, obedient, perfectly, prepared, prepares, scientific, trained, tyrant
«The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful -because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
abandoned, abandonment, forgiven, intact, painful, prefers, proud, reproach, reproached, reproaches, reproaching, self-reproach
«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»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Reading
| Keywords:
exists, interesting, magnifies, magnify, magnifying, multiply, significant
«If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution -- then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
abolish, affection, aspects, atone, atones, constitution, discovering, divinely, drug, each day, exaltation, fellows, Five Days, glowing, heavenly, individuals, novel, paradise, significant, six, sniff, sniffed, sniffing, sniffs, solved, swallow, undamaged, wake, wake up, wholly
«Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body»
«I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
boring, curiously, pains, Somebody else, sympathize, sympathized, sympathizes, sympathize with, sympathizing
«The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.»
«It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.»
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