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)
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In fact,” said Mustapha Mond, “you’re claiming the right to be unhappy.”
“All...
– A Book A Week:
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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)
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What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.
– Aldous Huxley Brave New World (via aznann)
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My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to...
– Aldous Huxley (via nullandvoidd-deactivated2011022)
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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...
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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…:
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If he behaved like a whipped dog, he could be treated like one.
– Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley (via openedmyheart)
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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...
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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)
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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)
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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
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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)
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Where the hormones there moan I.
– Aldous Huxley (via tangled-original-sara)
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Ok, FOR REAL didn't know that ALDOUS HUXLEY wrote...
detectivejane:
REWATCHING NOW.
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I think this changes everything.
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Quotations have something facetiously pedantic about them.
– Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point (via openedmyheart)
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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)
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Johann Sebastian Bach,” he heard her saying. “The music that’s closest to...
– Island – Aldous Huxley