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It is only by poets that the life of any epoch can be synthesized. Encyclopaedias and guides to knowledge cannot do it, for the good reason that they affect only the intellectual surface of a man’s life. The lower layers, the core of his being, they leave untouched.

— Aldous Huxley Texts and Pretexts (1932)

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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

The Doors of Perception (1954)

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

Brave New World Revisited (1958)

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Proper Studies (1927)

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