Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to hav…

Aldous Huxley
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Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are! ✨ Aldous Huxley (2000). Complete Essays: 1926-1929, Ivan R Dee
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‎But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art. ✨ Aldous Huxley (1950). Brave New World
I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven. ✨ 1956 Heaven and Hell.
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. ✨ Aldous Huxley (2015). Crome Yellow, p.86, Sheba Blake Publi … ▶
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost … ▶

Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are! ✨ Aldous Huxley (2000). Complete Essays: 1926-1929, Ivan R Dee

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