Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Quote by Aldous Huxley

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The only completely consistent people are the dead.

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great...

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great...

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy?...

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy?...

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,...

No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat...

No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat...

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are...

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are...

The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That...

The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That...

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his...

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his...

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.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Experience teaches us at the expense of our illusions

Experience teaches us at the expense of our illusions

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...

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.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your...

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your...

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself,...

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself,...

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads