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Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer, novelist, philosopher, and prominent member of the Huxley family. He graduated from Balliol College at the University of Oxford with a first-class honours degree in English literature.

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My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists ; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism.

Anarchist, Anarchists, Desirable, Government, Side, Sides

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Dull, Habit, Literature, Luxurious, Luxury

The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.

Christian, Idea, Ideas, Perfect, Terms

The legs, for example, of that chair--how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes--or was it several centuries?--not merely gazing at those bamboo legs, but actually being them---or rather being myself in them; or, to be still more accurate (for "I" was not involved in the case, nor in a certain sense were "they") being my Not-self in the Not-self which was the chair.

Example, Gazing, Miraculous, Polished, Self

Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.

Blessed, Blessing, Graces, Natural, Sleep

Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.

Brave New World, Frequent, Holiday, Pretty, Reality, Utopian

Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be

Discover, Goal, Ought

Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?

Bird, Fortunately, Imagine, Mouths, Perfectly, Perfectly Good

For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.

Besetting, Energy, Like, Sacrifice, Travel, Vices

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

Bondage, Character, Cunning, Fight, Fighting, Self

Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.

Beauty, Casts, Fear Of Love, Goodness, Love, Thought

I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

Claiming, Right, Unhappy

One of the great triumphs of the nineteenth century was to limit the connotation of the word "immoral" in such a way that, for practical purposes, only those were immoral who drank too much or made too copious love. Those who indulged in any or all of the other deadly sins could look down in righteous indignation on the lascivious and the gluttonous. . . . In the name of all lechers and boozers I most solemnly protest against the invidious distinction made to our prejudice.

Down, Immoral, Names, Solemnly, Too Much, Way

Well. . . . . . That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being here and now.

Attention, Forget, Mean, Pay, Same

The scent organ was playing a delightfully refreshing Herbal Capriccio - rippling arpeggios of thyme and lavender, of rosemary, basil, myrtle, tarragon; a series of daring modulations through the spice keys into ambergris; and a slow return through sandalwood, camphor, cedar and newmown hay (with occasional subtle touches of discord - a whiff of kidney pudding, the faintest suspicion of pig's dung) back to the simple aromatics with which the piece began. The final blast of thyme died away; there was a round of applause; the lights went up.

Cedar, Keys, Kidney, Light, Simple

Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.

Art, Arts, Mean, Religion, Taste

The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes

Bang, Bangs, Fire, Gun, Things, Way

Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.

Becomes, Ceiling, Ceilings, Floor, Positive, Reached

The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.

Desirable, Indispensible

Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

Gain, Gains, Individuals, Progress, Society, Taken

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