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Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. (Aldous Huxley)
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. View quote
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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. View quote
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It's embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder. View quote
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I'm claiming the right to be unhappy. View quote
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Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. View quote
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What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure. View quote
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Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction. View quote
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My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger. View quote
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Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as. View quote
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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. (Aldous Huxley)
The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right. View quote
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It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. View quote
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The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions. View quote
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Pain was a fascinating horror. View quote
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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. View quote
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I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly. View quote
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One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies. View quote
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De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. View quote
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But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what's going on in his heart and mind. View quote
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For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written. (Aldous Huxley)
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. View quote
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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work. View quote
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And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny. View quote
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It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. View quote
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