Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment and because books were scarce and difficult to reproduce... As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium. Aldous Huxley
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  2. This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half. - George Orwell
  3. The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life. - Martin Amis
  4. I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me. - Matt Groening
  5. Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. - Ambrose Bierce
More Quotes By Aldous Huxley
  1. Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
  2. It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days, such...
  3. The trouble with fiction, " said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
  4. La filosofía nos enseña a sentir incertidumbre ante las cosas que nos parecen evidentes. La propaganda, en cambio, nos enseña a aceptar como evidentes cosas sobre las que sería razonable suspender nuestro juicio o sentir dudas.
  5. He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’‘ A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth, ’ said the Savage promptly.‘ Quite so…
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