Books and loud noises, flowers and electric shocks — already in the infant mind these couples were compromisingly linked; and after two hundred repetitions of the same or a similar lesson would be wedded indissolubly. What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.
Aldous HuxleyNot so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, incrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob.
Aldous HuxleyOnly times and places, only names and ghosts.
Aldous HuxleyMon Dieu, la vie est par trop moche.
Aldous HuxleyWhat I'm going to tell you now," he said, "may sound incredible. But then, when you're not accustomed to history, most facts about the past DO seem incredible.
Aldous HuxleyNot quite. I'm thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feel that I've got something important to say and the power to say it—only I don't know what it is, and I can't make any use of the power.
Aldous HuxleyOur vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.
Aldous HuxleyNature is monstrously unjust. There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.
Aldous HuxleyBeing cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.
Aldous HuxleyEveryone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make their life full, significant, and interesting.
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