Huxley

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    Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

    After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one’s mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

    Suddenly to realise that one is sitting, damned, among the other damned—it is a most disquieting experience; so disquieting that most of us react to it by immediately plunging more deeply into our particular damnation in the hope, generally realized, that we may be able, at least for a time, to stifle our revolutionary knowledge.
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)