Aldous Leonard Huxley

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"We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself."	Happiness, Hope, Joy
"Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation…. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process."	Art, Character, Habits
"Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you."	Experience
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."	Intelligence
"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."	Honesty, Knowledge, Truth
"Maybe this world is another planet's hell."	Miscellaneous
"The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been devided as fools and madmen."	Men, Reading
"Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil."	Art, Evil, Experience
"A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes."	Ability, Adversity, Difficulty
"Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power."	Men, Politics, Power
"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm."	Age, Genius, Sin
"Such prosperity as we have known up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital."	Ability, Knowledge, Wisdom
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach."	Education, History, Learning
"We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look."	Age, Art
"The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different."	Age, Change, History
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."	Music, Sin
"Experience teaches only the teachable."	Ability, Education, Experience
"Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him."	Experience, Men
"The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface."	Anarchy, Chaos, Government
"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."	Miscellaneous
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