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

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About Aldous Huxley

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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To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior "righteous indignation" — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

—Aldous Huxley

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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

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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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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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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

—Horace Walpole

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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

—George Santayana

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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again. … The future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

—J. G. Ballard

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Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there.

—Mickey Friedman

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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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