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Abused as we abuse it at prese...

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation...

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Knowledge is porportionate to ...

Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Since Mozart's day composers h...

Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

A competent portraitist knows ...

A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

People are much too solemn abo...

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

One of the many reasons for th...

One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

The pursuit of truth is just a...

The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

When an artist deserts to the ...

When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.

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.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Impulse arrested spills over, ...

Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the current, the height and strength of the barrier. The unchecked stream flows smoothly down its appointed channels into a calm well being.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Words can be like X-rays if yo...

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

I want to know what passion is...

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

It isn't only art that is inco...

It isn't only art that is incompatible with happiness, it's also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

What's the point of truth or b...

What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

A whole population of stranger...

A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The name was an abstraction, a title arbitrarily given, like 'France' or 'England,' to a collection, never long the same, of many individuals who were born, lived, and died within him, as the inhabitants of a country appear and disappear, but keep alive in their passage the identity of the nation to which they belong.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

The place is good. How good, o...

The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have a terror of losing my freedom. Free, without ties, unpossessed by any possessions, free to do as one will, to go at a moment's notice wherever the fancy may suggest--it is good. But so is this place. Might it not be better? To gain freedom one sacrifices something [...] and all that these things and people signify. One sacrifices something--for a greater gain in knowledge, in understan

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

An irrelevance, and your life'...

An irrelevance, and your life's altered.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Something that had been a sing...

Something that had been a single cell, a cluster of cells, a little sac of tissue, a kind of worm, a potential fish with gills, stirred in her womb and would one day become a man--a grown man, suffering and enjoying, loving and hating, thinking, remembering, imagining. And what had been a blob of jelly within her body would invent a god and worship; what had been a kind of fish would create, and, having created, would become the battleground of disputing good and evil; what had blindly lived in her as a parasitic worm

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

But I don't want comfort. I wa...

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Nobody can have the consolatio...

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

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....