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)

    Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)

    Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty.... Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting into trumpets. No Duse without a crowd of malodorous bourgeois giving one another their coryzas. And think of the inexpugnable retreats for microbes prepared by Michelangelo in the curls of Moses’ beard!
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)