Huxley

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    For Jeremy, direct, unmediated experience was always hard to take in, always more or less disquieting. Life became safe, things assumed meaning, only when they had been translated into words and confined between the covers of a book.
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

    An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

    The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the nonintellectuals have never stirred.
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)