The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling tou…

Aldous Huxley
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The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much. ✨ Aldous Huxley (1992). Ape and Essence: A Novel, p.19, Ivan R. Dee
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Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life. ✨ Aldous Huxley (2009). Island, p.69, Random House
In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent. ✨ Aldous Huxley (1999). Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience, p.4 … ▶
Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction. ✨ Aldous Huxley (2009). The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, p.22, Harpe … ▶
... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking. ✨ Aldous Huxley (2015). Crome Yellow, p.82, Sheba Blake Publishing
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. ✨ Proper Studies (1927) The Idea of Equality

The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much. ✨ Aldous Huxley (1992). Ape and Essence: A Novel, p.19, Ivan R. Dee

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