Aldous Huxley: Frasi in inglese

Aldous Huxley era scrittore britannico. Frasi in inglese.
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“Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.”

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“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.”

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Aldous Huxley libro Ritorno al mondo nuovo

Origine: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 11 (p. 104)

“Hug me till you drug me, honey;
Kiss me till I'm in a coma.”

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Origine: Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited

“Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.”

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Aldous Huxley libro Il mondo nuovo

Origine: Brave New World

“I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.”

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“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstacies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude.”

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Aldous Huxley libro Le porte della percezione

Page 159
The Doors of Perception (1954)

“What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?”

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Aldous Huxley libro Il mondo nuovo

Origine: Brave New World

“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.”

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Aldous Huxley libro Il mondo nuovo

Origine: Brave New World

“Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?”

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Aldous Huxley libro Passo di danza

Origine: Antic Hay

“Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.”

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Origine: Complete Essays 3, 1930-35

“We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.”

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Aldous Huxley libro L'isola

Origine: Island

“The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg — eight ninths below the water line, one ninth above.”

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Aldous Huxley libro Il mondo nuovo

The Controller, Mustapha Mond, in Ch. 16
Origine: Brave New World (1932)

“Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.”

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Origine: Themes And Variations

“Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.”

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Aldous Huxley libro Il mondo nuovo

Variante: You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.
Origine: Brave New World (1932), Ch. 3<!-- p. 50 -->

“These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.”

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Origine: The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

“Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.”

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“They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now"
"But God doesn't change"
"Men do though”

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Aldous Huxley libro Il mondo nuovo

Origine: Brave New World

“I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.”

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Origine: Themes And Variations

“Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.”

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Aldous Huxley libro Il mondo nuovo

Origine: Brave New World