May 2011
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“The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and...”
– Aldous Huxley Brave New World Revisited (via littlebluepenguin)
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“The Savage shook his head. “It all seems to me quite horrible.” “Of course”
– Aldous Huxley Brave New World (via Surge)
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“Then a hiccough and silence.”
– Aldous Huxley Brave New World (via Layla Jewels)
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“Nothing could assuage the secular grief that was your heritage.”
– Villiers de L’isle-Adam, Aldous Huxley (via winmeroundwithprose)
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“Don’t you wish you were free, Lenina?” “I don’t know what you mean. I am free....”
– Aldous Huxley Brave New World (via Layla Jewels)
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“Yes, that’s just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of...”
– Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (via -labyrinth)
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“Don’t you like being with me?” “But of course, Bernard. It’s this horrible...”
– Aldous Huxley Brave New World (via Layla Jewels)
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“Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable...”
– Foreword (Brave New World) ~ Aldous Huxley (via beginningtohope)
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Aldous Huxley: An excerpt from a transcript of the...
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Wallace: The question, of course, that keeps coming back to my mind is this: obviously politics in themselves are not evil, television is not in itself evil, atomic energy is not evil, and yet you seem to fear that it will be used in an evil way. Why is it that the right people will not, in your estimation, use them? Why is it that the wrong people will use...
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“Utilitarian Soldier: Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied...”
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Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most... →
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“Aldous Huxley’s evolution as a novelist may be described as the succession of...”
– Aldous Huxley and D. H. Lawrence: An Attempt at Intellectual Sympathy (Pierre Vitoux)
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“Mozart’s C-Minor Piano Concerto was interrupted after the first movement, and a...”
– Aldous Huxley (on Gesualdo’s madrigals), in The Doors of Perception. (via blogthoven)
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“The proper study of mankind is books.”
– Aldous Huxley (via armenia-cityinthesky)
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“a comforting thought that time never stands still, and nobody is immortal.”
– Aldous Huxley (via imills)
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“one cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.”
– brave new world (via thebaber)
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It is 3:30 AM and I am an insomniac reading Island
Will: Is that your bird?
Mary: Mynahs are like the electric light. They don't belong to anybody.
Will: Why does he say those things?
Mary: Because somebody taught him.
Will: But why did they teach him those things? Why 'Attention'? Why 'Here and now'?
Mary: 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.
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“It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night, Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s...”
– Aldous Huxley Brave New World (via Layla Jewels)
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“Then the bearskin made a final appearance and, amid a blare of sexophones, the...”
– Brave New World, Aldous Huxley (via zoezoetrope)
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“At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice...”
– Vitamin-THC:
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“The optimum population,” said Mustapha Mond, “is modelled on the...”
– Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
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The Crows of Pearblossom, by Aldous Huxley →
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“It’s curious,” he went on after a little pause, “to read what people in the time...”
– Brave New World, Aldous Huxley (via 46676989)
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“Saber es relativamente fácil. Querer y obrar de acuerdo a lo que uno quisiera,...”
– Aldous Huxley (via aoimoonlight) 