June 2011
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“Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to...”
– Aldous Huxley (via jamiel8668)
Jun 30th
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“In fact,” said Mustapha Mond, “you’re claiming the right to be unhappy.” “All...”
– A Book A Week:  
Jun 29th
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“Part 2 With eyes for the most part downcast and, if ever they lighted on a...”
– Aldous Huxley Brave New World (via Sean Knight)
Jun 27th
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Jun 26th
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“What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.”
–  Aldous Huxley Brave New World (via aznann)
Jun 25th
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Jun 24th
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“My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to...”
– Aldous Huxley (via nullandvoidd-deactivated2011022)
Jun 23rd
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Jun 22nd
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"I wish I could talk in technicolor"
youngmanandtheweb: Boing Boing shared a link to a “Huffington Post” article by Don Lattin about a study conducted in the 1950’s by writer Aldous Huxley (author of “The Doors of Perception”), philosopher Gerald Heard, and Bill Wilson (co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous) where housewives were given dosages of LSD and then monitored and engaged in questions pertaining to what they were experiencing...
Jun 21st
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Jun 20th
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Jun 19th
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Jun 18th
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“The Savage stood looking on. ‘O brave new world, O brave new world …’ In his...”
– - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World chapter 15 Once upon a time…:  
Jun 17th
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Jun 16th
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“If he behaved like a whipped dog, he could be treated like one.”
– Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley (via openedmyheart)
Jun 15th
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Suite in B Minor for Flute and Strings
Meanwhile the music played on–Bach’s Suite in B minor, for flute and strings. Young Tolley conducted with his usual inimitable grace, bending in swan-like undulations from the loins, and tracing luscious arabesques on the air with his waving arms, as though he were dancing to the music. A dozen anonymous fiddlers and ‘cellists scraped at his bidding. And the great Pongileoni glueily kissed...
Jun 14th
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Jun 14th
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“One can’t have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. You’re...”
– Brave New World ~ Aldous Huxley He feared that was we love the most will destroy us … and he may just be right. (via runningromeo)
Jun 13th
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Jun 12th
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Jun 11th
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“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it come as sincerely...”
– Aldous Huxley (via boundbybooks)
Jun 11th
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Jun 10th
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“One ought to be able,” I said, “to see these trousers as infinitely im- portant...”
– Crazy in Moloch: Excerpt from: Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley  
Jun 9th
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Jun 8th
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“Five thousand pounds and un-married, that’s the most heartening piece of news...”
– Mary Boland as Mrs. Bennet in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ (1940) -I can totally see that A. Huxley wrote this now. THE WORLD MAKES SENSE AGAIN. (via detectivejane)
Jun 7th
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Jun 6th
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“Where the hormones there moan I.”
–  Aldous Huxley (via tangled-original-sara)
Jun 5th
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Ok, FOR REAL didn't know that ALDOUS HUXLEY wrote...
detectivejane: REWATCHING NOW. . I think this changes everything.
Jun 4th
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“Quotations have something facetiously pedantic about them.”
– Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point (via openedmyheart)
Jun 3rd
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“Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as...”
– Aldous Huxley Brave New World (via Adam Lowe)
Jun 2nd
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“Johann Sebastian Bach,” he heard her saying. “The music that’s closest to...”
– Island – Aldous Huxley
Jun 1st