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“ ”Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was a British author known for his novel Brave New World. He was the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley and younger brother of Julian Huxley.
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Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
"The Savage nodded, frowning. "You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows or outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them...But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy."
..."What you need," the Savage went on, "is something <i>with</i> tears for a change. Nothing costs enough here.
Happiness is a hard master — particularly other people's happiness. A much harder master, if one isn't conditioned to accept it unquestionably, than truth.