Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
Aldous HuxleyThe secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Aldous HuxleyPain was a fascinating horror
Aldous HuxleyTags: pain
That was the chief difference between literature and life. In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.
Aldous HuxleyHell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.
Aldous HuxleyI used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown province of knowledge. Getting the better of a problem. Forcing ideas to associate or come apart. Bullying recalcitrant words to assume a certain pattern. All the fun of being a dictator without any risks and responsibilities.
Aldous HuxleyOne can’t have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. You’re paying for it, Mr. Watson - paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty.
Aldous HuxleyTags: beauty
Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.
Aldous HuxleyTags: rhyme
I would rather,' he said, 'give a healthy boy or a healthy girl a phial of prussic acid than this novel.' (And here let me pause to make Mr. Douglas a sporting offer. I will provide a healthy boy, a phial of prussic acid, and a copy of The Well of Loneliness, and if he keeps his word and gives the boy the prussic acid I undertake to pay all expenses of his defense at the ensuing murder trial and to erect a monument to his memory after he has been hanged.)
Aldous HuxleyI can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
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