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«At thirty-three . . . Lilian Aldwinkle appealed to all the instinctive bigamist in one. She was eighteen in the attics and widow Dido on the floors below.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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appealed, bigamist, bigamists, Dido, eighteen, floors, instinctive, thirty-three, widow
«A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.»
«Oh, she's a splendid girl. Wonderfully pneumatic.»
«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.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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bad manners, corpse, devoid, imaginable, The Untouchables, untouchable, untouchables
«Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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aesthete, aesthetes, edifying, goddess, putrefaction, set in, worshipped
«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.»
«I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied... In spite of everything I survive.»
«A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.»
«That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you?ve got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.»
«What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.»
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