Pain was a fascinating horror ✨ Aldous Huxley (1950). The Collected Wo…

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Pain was a fascinating horror ✨ Aldous Huxley (1950). The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world
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A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of delibe … ▶
‎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
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To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with words and notions, but as they a … ▶
Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance. ✨ Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). Complete Essays: 1920-1925, Ivan R Dee

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