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“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“A person can only be born in one place.However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace... with life.”
― M. Darwish

“In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.”
― Isaac Newton

“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“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

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

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

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

“Every man's memory is his private literature.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”
― Aldous Huxley

“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
― Huxley Aldous

“The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Experience teaches only the teachable.”
― 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

“I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Ending is better than mending.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.”
― Aldous Huxley, Island

“It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Pain was a fascinating horror”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“A man can smile and smile and be a villain.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Genius and the Goddess

“Why do you love the woman you're in love with? Because she is. And that, after all, is God's own definition of Himself; I am that I am. The girl is who she is. Some of her isness spills over and impregnates the entire universe. Objects and events cease to be mere representations of classes and become their own uniqueness; cease to be illustrations of verbal abstractions and become fully concrete. Then you stop being in love, and the universe collapses, with an almost audible squeak of derision, into its normal insignificance.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Genius and the Goddess

“Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Art of Seeing

“Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.”
― Aldous Huxley

“To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception

“I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.”
― Aldous Huxley