A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.

Quote by Aldous Huxley

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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual...

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual...

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's...

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's...

Knowing who in fact we are results in Good Being, and Good Being results in...

Knowing who in fact we are results in Good Being, and Good Being results in...

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent...

The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent...

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his...

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his...

Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder

Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as...

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as...

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark...

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark...

In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very...

In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very...

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and...

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and...

Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves,...

Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves,...

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most...

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most...

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in...

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in...

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.