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Real orgies are never so exciting as pornographic books. In a volume by Pierre Louys all the girls are young and their figures perfect; there's no hiccoughing or bad breath, no fatigue or boredom, no sudden recollections of unpaid bills or business letters unanswered, to interrupt the raptures. Art gives you the sensation, the thought, the feeling quite pure—chemically pure, I mean,... not morally.
(Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British novelist. Philip Quarles, in Point Counter Point, ch. 1 (1928).)
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The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.
(Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British novelist. Philip Quarles, in Point Counter Point, ch. 6 (1939).
This passage comes from the notebook of Philip Quarles, the principal character in the narrative. As a writer committed to the novel of ideas, Quarles is in large part Huxley's self- portrait. Here Quarles expresses one of Huxley's principal themes: the evasion of reality through shallow intellectualism.)
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A bad book is as much of a labour to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
(Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British author. Point Counter Point, ch. 13 (1928).)
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A bad book is as much of a labour to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
(Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British author. Point Counter Point, ch. 13 (1928).)
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Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all; it panders to lower instincts than the aesthetic. The spectacle of human beings reduced to automatism satisfies the lust for power. Looking at mechanized slaves, one fancies oneself a master.
(Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British novelist. Philip Quarles, in Point Counter Point, ch. 29 (1928).
This passage comes from the notebook of Philip Quarles, the principal character in the narrative. As a writer committed to the novel of ideas, Quarles is in large part Huxley's self- portrait. Here Quarles reflects on having witnessed the assembly of a militia founded by a British fascist, Everard Webley, modeled on Oswald Mosely.)
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The whole story of the universe is implicit in any part of it. The meditative eye can look through any single object and see, as through a window, the entire cosmos. Make the smell of roast duck in an old kitchen diaphanous and you will have a glimpse of everything, from the spiral nebulae to Mozart's music and the stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi. The artistic problem is to produce diaphanousness in spots, selecting the spots so as to reveal only the most humanly significant of distant vistas behind the near familiar object.
(Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British novelist. Philip Quarles, in Point Counter Point, ch. 19 (1939).
This passage comes from the notebook of Philip Quarles, the principal character in the narrative. As a writer committed to the novel of ideas, Quarles is in large part Huxley's self- portrait.)
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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
(Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British author. "Pascal," sct. 23, Do What You Will (1929).)
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