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~ Sunday, July 10 ~
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lifeofliterature: Brave new world (by Julien Chambon)

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Brave new world (by Julien Chambon)

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~ Monday, July 12 ~
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“ Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.
— Aldous Huxley, ‘Brave New World’. (via stanshall)
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“ From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.
— The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, Aldous Huxley
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“ We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves.
— The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, Aldous Huxley
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~ Tuesday, May 25 ~
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just finished. loved it. such a bleak yet beautiful vision of a world destroyed by man’s own ignorance and drive to ‘conquer nature’.

just finished. loved it. such a bleak yet beautiful vision of a world destroyed by man’s own ignorance and drive to ‘conquer nature’.

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A sketching by Goya, as mentioned in Aldous Huxley’s ‘Ape and Essence’.

A sketching by Goya, as mentioned in Aldous Huxley’s ‘Ape and Essence’.

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~ Sunday, May 23 ~
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“ The sea, the bright planet, the boundless crystal of the sky- surely you remember them! Surely! Or can it be that you have forgotten, that you have never even discovered what lies beyond the mental Zoo and the inner Asylum and all that Broadway of imaginary theatres, in which the only name in lights is always you own?
— Ape and Essence, Aldous Huxley
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“ ‘Too bad about old Gandhi,’ he said. ‘I suppose his great secret was not wanting anything for himself.’
‘Yes, I suppose that was one of the secrets.’
‘I wish to God I didn’t want things so much.’
‘Same here,’ I fervently concurred.
‘And when you finally get what you want, it’s never what you thought it was going to be.’
— Ape and Essence, Aldous Huxley
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