Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can, and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

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Aldous Leonard Huxley ( AWL-dəs; 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives and poems.

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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

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Dream in a pragmatic way.

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That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

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What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

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The world is full of hundreds of beautiful things we can never possibly have time to discover, and there is no time to be unkind or envious or ungenerous, and no sense in enslaving the mind to the trivialities of the moment. For you can be equal to the greatness of life only by marching with it; not by seeking love but by giving it, nor seeking to be understood but learning to understand. And when it is all over, there will be an agony of remorse because one spared the effort and did not make more of that little span of opportunity; and knowing reality at last, who knows but that one will look back with unassuageable regret upon one's pitiful little faith.

—Vivienne de Watteville

I have done bad things. I can’t take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am.

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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

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Love does strange things to you sometimes. It can twist you into saying and doing things that you know you’ll regret and still, you do them.

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If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

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