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Quote by Aldous Huxley
You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. Its one of the ma

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. Its one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear. – Aldous Huxley

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Modern mans besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions. – Aldous Huxley

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People intoxicate themselves with work so they wont see how they really are. – Aldous Huxley

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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. – Aldous Huxley

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Passion spins around love and I am dizzy around you always. – Terri Guillemets

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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water. – Gwendolyn Brooks

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you cant even think straight. – Marilyn French

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I really love idiot, enlightened characters – these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them. – Chuck Palahniuk

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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

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Learning operatic roles is ongoing, and I find that I can learn on the train or subway, during a manicure, getting my hair done, and even while driving if I only look at the score at red lights. – Renee Fleming

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Large, naked raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who lie in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter. – Fran Lebowitz

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