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    Aldous Huxley
    “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays
    tags: music
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
    tags: fact, ignorance, truth
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    Aldous Huxley
    “I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point
    tags: change
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    Aldous Huxley
    “An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: attributed, intellectualism
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    Aldous Huxley
    “The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: introspection, solitude
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: reading, words, writing
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    Aldous Huxley
    “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
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    Aldous Huxley
    “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Collected Essays
    tags: history, lessons
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    Aldous Huxley
    “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Texts and Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries
    tags: experience
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Do what you will: Twelve essays
    tags: consistency
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    Aldous Huxley
    “I am I, and I wish I weren't.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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    Aldous Huxley
    “The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Every man's memory is his private literature.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: literature, memory
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    Aldous Huxley
    “No social stability without individual stability.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: society
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    Aldous Huxley
    “For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: inadequacy-of-words
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Experience teaches only the teachable.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: teaching
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: inspirational, women
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: belonging, company, desires, literature, longings
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: f-scott-fitzgerald
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: love
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: lost-innocence, memories
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    Eric Roth
    “For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”
    ― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay
    tags: benjamin-button, change, courage, time
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    Eric Roth
    “Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.”
    ― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay
    tags: life, missed-chances, opportunities
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: empathy, thankful, understanding, understanding-others
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: jordan-baker
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: affection, amity, love
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Ah," she cried, "you look so cool."

    Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table.

    You always look so cool," she repeated.

    She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: betrayal, love
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation– the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
    One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up
    tags: ambivalence, ambivalent, hopeless, hopelessness, implausible, impossible, inner-conflict, intelligence, opposing-views
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