Huxley

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“I can sympathise with people’s pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

“Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

“The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour’s wives! The innocence of Ford, the innocence of Rockefeller! The nineteenth century was the Age of Innocence—that sort of innocence. With the result that we’re now almost ready to say that a man is seldom more innocently employed than when making love.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)