Quote by Aldous Huxley
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly. – Aldous Huxley

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. – Aldous Huxley

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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. – Aldous Huxley

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All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. – Honore de Balzac

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To catch a husband is an art to hold him is a job. – Simone de Beauvoir

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