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I am I, and I wish I weren't....

I am I, and I wish I weren't.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Universal happiness keeps the ...

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Deprived of their newspapers o...

Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Human beings act in a great va...

Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality. But today, in the world's most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Every ceiling, when reached, b...

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Man is hypnotized by the glitt...

Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Words are magical in the way t...

Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

So now you can let go, my darl...

So now you can let go, my darling...Let go...Let go of this poor old body. You don't need it anymore. Let it fall away from you. Leave it lying there like a pile of worn-out clothes...Go on, my darling, go on into the Light, into the peace, into the living peace of the Clear Light.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

I was born wandering between t...

I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

For in spite of language, in s...

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

A really efficient totalitaria...

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

I ate civilization. It poisone...

I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then,' he added in a lower tone, 'I ate my own wickedness.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Ironically enough, the only pe...

Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Industrial manЂ'a sentient rec...

Industrial manЂ'a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Facts are ventriloquist's dumm...

Facts are ventriloquist's dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

What a gulf between impression...

What a gulf between impression and expression! That's our ironic fateЂ'to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverseЂ'touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Try LSD, 100mg intramuscular.....

Try LSD, 100mg intramuscular... I thought so.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

I know quite well that one nee...

I know quite well that one needs ridiculous, mad situations like that; one can't write really well about anything else. Why was that old fellow such a marvelous propaganda technician? Because he had so many insane, excruciating things to get excited about. You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

In spiritual matters, knowledg...

In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being; as we are, so we know.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 796 quotes

Our business is to wake up. We...

Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one illusory part which our self-centered consciousness permits us to see. We must not live thoughtlessly, taking our illusion for the complete reality, but at the same time we must not live too thoughtfully in the sense of trying to escape from the dream state. We must be continuously on watch for ways in which we may enlarge our consciousness.

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....