April 2011
30 posts
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“And that,” put in the Director sententiously, “that is the secret of happiness...”
– Aldous Huxley Brave New World (via T Fitzpatrick II)
Apr 30th
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“Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is...”
– Aldous Huxley, writer (via handguidetonothing)
Apr 29th
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Apr 28th
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“Thebes and Babylon and Cnossos and Mycenae. Whisk. Whisk—and where was Odysseus,...”
– Aldous Huxley Brave New World (via Mark Robertson)
Apr 27th
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WatchWatch
A picture book by Aldous Huxley, originally written for his niece in 1944, published in a Weekly Reader Book Club edition in 1967.
Apr 26th
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“In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one...”
– Aldous Huxley (via earlyfrost)
Apr 25th
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“I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be...”
– Aldous Huxley (via whiplash-girlchild)
Apr 24th
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Apr 23rd
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Apr 22nd
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“…ordinary people are perfectly capable of having visionary or even fully...”
– “Notes on What’s What” from Island, by Aldous Huxley (via jaclynlambert)
Apr 21st
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“That’s what the human brain is there for— to turn the chaos of given experience...”
– From The Island, by Aldous Huxley (via jaclynlambert)
Apr 20th
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Apr 19th
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Apr 18th
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“It is precisely for the philomaths that universities ought to cater.”
– Aldous Huxley, Proper Studies (1927)
Apr 17th
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“To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through...”
– Aldous Huxley (via crucifytheego)
Apr 16th
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“Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”
– Aldous Huxley (via sweetcatastrophe)
Apr 15th
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“Sometimes, on the contrary, the symbols have almost no connection with external...”
– From the Island, by Aldous Huxley (via jaclynlambert)
Apr 14th
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Apr 13th
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“Huxley was a person who was at once seemingly remote and yet extremely loveable...”
– Christopher Isherwood, 1965
Apr 12th
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“…then a series of small busy sounds that he was unable to interpret. What was...”
– From Island by Aldous Huxley  (via jaclynlambert)
Apr 12th
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“‎”There’s isn’t a formula or method. You learn to love by loving.”
– Aldous Huxley (via flowithlove)
Apr 11th
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“Oh no, I don’t want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse....”
– Aldous Huxley Brave New World (via Luke Lackrone)
Apr 10th
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“William Asquith Farnaby was nothing but a muddy filter, on the hither side of...”
– From Island by Aldous Huxley (via jaclynlambert)
Apr 9th
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“You’ve got to be hurt and upset; otherwise, you can’t think of the really good,...”
– Brave New World, Aldous Huxley (via zenredux)
Apr 8th
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Apr 7th
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Brave New World
amyatrophy: The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects. Which in turn increased his sense of being alien and alone. A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned,...
Apr 6th
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Apr 5th
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“We can make a new one with the greatest ease-as many as we like. Unorthodoxy...”
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (via simonedubay)
Apr 4th
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Apr 3rd
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“And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.”
– Aldous Huxley Brave New World (via johnsscott2)
Apr 2nd
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