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“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

“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

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
― Aldous Huxley

“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 Huxley, Brave New World

“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
― Aldous Huxley

“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“I am I, and I wish I weren't.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”
― Aldous Huxley

“I like being myself. Myself and nasty.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
― Aldous Huxley

“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“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

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays

“Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.”
― Maxim Gorky

“When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.”
― Maxim Gorky

“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery!”
― Maxim Gorky

“Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.”
― Maxim Gorky, Lower Depths and Other Plays

“What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.”
― Maxim Gorky

“Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future”
― Maxim Gorky, Twenty-Six Men and a Girl and Other Stories

“The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling, has a pretty good idea of the destructive effect of the disease on his constitution.This is a case in which knowledge brings death nearer.”
― Maxim Gorky, Literary Portraits

“One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .”
― Maxim Gorky, Selected Short Stories

“Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.”
― Maxim Gorki