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That all men are equal is a pr...

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

The most distressing thing tha...

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Feasts must be solemn and rare...

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Official dignity tends to incr...

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Those who believe that they ar...

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Thought must be divided agains...

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

What we feel and think and are...

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Your true traveller finds bore...

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Every man who knows how to rea...

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Uncontrolled, the hunger and t...

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Words, words, words! They shut...

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Perhaps it's good for one to s...

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

God isn't compatible with mach...

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Great is truth, but still grea...

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Europe is so well gardened tha...

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

It was one of those evenings w...

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

The finest works of art are pr...

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

The vast majority of human bei...

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

From their experience or from ...

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Like every other good thing in...

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....