Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.
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Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful -- if strenuously led -- as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress.Aldous Huxley
A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tails a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.
Aldous Huxley
If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
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