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Aldous Huxley Quotes
«A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.»
«Orgy Porgy, Ford and fun. Kiss the girls and make them one. Girls at one with Boys at peace. Orgy progy gives release.»
«Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?»
Author: Aldous Huxley
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any longer,
coma,
humane,
ignored,
morphia,
sensible,
shuffle,
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shuffling,
squirt,
squirted,
squirting,
squirts
«Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
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Facts
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Keywords:
diabolism,
dummies,
dummy,
elsewhere,
indulge,
knee,
nonsense,
sheer,
utter,
ventriloquist,
ventriloquists
«The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything»
«Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.»
«Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
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animal,
baboon,
baboons,
belong to,
claiming,
cowed,
cows,
disgraceful,
Shakespeare,
single-mindedness,
species,
very well
«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.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
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Critic,
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Keywords:
aged,
arrested,
arrested development,
cocoon,
cocoons,
continuing,
convention,
middle-aged,
middle-aged man,
muffle,
muffled,
muffling,
on the contrary
«The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.»
«The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable»