August 2010
53 posts
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“Todos os moralistas estão de acordo em que o remorso crônico é um sentimento dos...”
– Admirável Mundo Novo - Aldous Huxley (via cigarettesandtears)
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“A felicidade real sempre parece bastante sórdida em comparação
com as...”
– Admirável Mundo Novo, Aldous Huxley
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“El amor ahuyenta el miedo y, recíprocamente el miedo ahuyenta al amor. Y no sólo...”
– Aldous Huxley (via gaviota)
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Who In Fact I am
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If I only knew who in fact I am,I should cease to behave as what I think I am;and if I stopped behaving as what I think I am,I should know who I am.
-Aldous Huxley (Island)
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“My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to...”
– Taylor Goad: Aldous Huxley
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“The sea flows in our veins and the stars are our jewels”
– Aldous Huxley (via lunadelcosmos)
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“In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an...”
– Aldous Huxley (via eelesa)
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“Se depois de toda tempestade vêm tais calmarias, então que soprem os ventos até...”
– Admirável Mundo Novo, Aldous Huxley
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“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer...”
– Aldous Huxley (via iloveyoulessthanpunk)
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“What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of...”
– !: Neuro!
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“Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure...”
– Aldous Huxley (via iloveyoulessthanpunk)
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“As though men were more than physico-chemically equal”
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (via interestingmiscellanea)
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“I don’t believe for a moment that creativity is a neurotic symptom.”
– aldous huxley (via quellequaintrelle)
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From Aldous Huxley's 1944 Introduction to The...
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—More than twenty-five centuries have passed since that which has been called the Perennial Philosophy was first committed to writing; and in the course of those centuries it has found expression, now partial, now complete, now in this form, now in that, again and again. In Vedanta and Hebrew prophecy, in the Tao Teh King and the Platonic dialogues, in the Gospel according to St....
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“A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration...”
– Aldous Huxley - Antic Hay
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“I am I, and wish I wasn’t.”
– Bernard Marx (Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World) (via wordsinthesky)
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“There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provincialism.”
– Aldous Huxley - Antic Hay
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“Desirelessness is the condition of deliverance and illumination. The condition...”
– from The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West by Aldous Huxley (via montaigneingit)
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“The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern...”
– Aldous Huxley
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Fifth Philosopher's Song - Aldous Huxley
A million million spermatozoa All of them alive; Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive.
And among that billion minus one Might have chanced to be Shakespeare, another Newton, a new Donne— But the One was Me.
Shame to have ousted your betters thus, Taking ark while the others remained outside! Better for all of us, froward Homunculus, If you’d quietly...
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“O homem é um anfíbio que vive simultaneamente em dois mundos - o mundo da...”
– Aldous Huxley
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“Depois do silêncio, o que mais se aproxima de expressar o inexprimível é a...”
– Aldous Huxley (via ameninacomumaflor)
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Brave New World, Chapter Eighteen Excerpt by...
eyetubes:
“I say,” Helmholtz exclaimed solicitously, “you do look ill, John!”
“Did you eat something that didn’t agree with you?” asked Bernard.
The Savage nodded. “I ate civilization.”
“What?”
“It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then,” he added, in a lower tone, “I ate my own wickedness.”
“Yes, but what exactly? … I mean, just now you were …”
“Now I am purified,” said the Savage. “I...
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“I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation-the miracle,...”
– Aldous Huxley. 1954 (via tralivesloud)
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Why does Aldous Huxley choose the title "Brave...
The title « Brave New World » is a quote from Shakespeare’s « The Tempest ». It is used by Huxley for several reasons. Firstly it allows him to connect the two stories together and highlights the issue of ‘civillisation’ vs. ‘savagery’ that dominates in both and also helps us to draw parallels between characters such as the savage Caliban in « The Tempest » and...
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“And always, everywhere, there would be the yelling or quietly authoritative...”
– Island (1962)
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“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do...”
– Island (1962)
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“He hated Popé more and more. A man can smile and smile and be a villain....”
– Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Sorry I just really liked this paragraph.
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“The Will to Order can make tyrants out of those who merely aspire to clear up a...”
– Aldous Huxley
sounds exactly like what went wrong with singapore
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“Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.”
– Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (via extremelyloudincrediblyclose)
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“In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in...”
– Aldous Huxley (via syeda) 