Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the s…

Aldous Huxley
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents. ✨ Aldous Huxley (1950). The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world
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I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example. ✨ Peter Edgerly Firchow, Aldous Huxley (1984). The end of Utopia: a study of Aldous Huxle … ▶
On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. ✨ Aldous Huxley (1950). The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world
It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in se … ▶
No Romeo-and-Juliet acts, no nonsense about Love with a large L, none of that popular song claptrap with its skies of blue, dreams come true, heaven with you. Just sensuality for its own sake. ✨ Aldo … ▶
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. ✨ Collected Essays (1959) Case of Voluntary Ignorance

Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents. ✨ Aldous Huxley (1950). The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world

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