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Schriftsteller, Kulturkritiker, Gesellschafts- und Zukunftsromane (England, 1894 - 1963).

Aldous Leonard Huxley · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Aldous Leonard Huxley wäre heute 130 Jahre, 4 Monate, 22 Tage oder 47.627 Tage alt.

Geboren am 26.07.1894 in Godalming
Gestorben am 22.11.1963 in Hollywood
Sternzeichen: ♌ Löwe

• Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a strech of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet.

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• Every man's memory is his private literature.

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• Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

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• Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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• I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

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• Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

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• If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

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• It is our duty to resist the forces which threaten our freedom with all our might.

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• Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

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• Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

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• Men are very queer animals - a mix of horse-nervousness, ass-stubbornness and camel-malice.

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• Modern man has discovered a vice: speed.

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• Modern states live from hand to mouth. But the mouth grows constantly larger.

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• Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they do not dare to trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

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• Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

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• Nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis.

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• Nothing is more dreadful than a cold, unimpassioned indulgence. And love infallibly becomes cold and unimpassioned when it is too lightly made.

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

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• People will insist . . . on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest.

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• Ragtime . . . but when the wearied Band Swoons to a waltz, I take her hand, And there we sit in peaceful calm, Quietly sweating palm to palm.

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