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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true. ↗

— Charlie Hunnam

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