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Aldous Leonard Huxley byl anglický spisovatel, který většinu svého dospělého života prožil v USA. Nejvíce proslul svými romány, nicméně psal též eseje, poezii, povídky, cestopisy a filmové scénáře a vymýšlel příběhy.

✵ 26. červenec 1894 – 22. listopad 1963   •   Další jména Aldous L. Huxley, Aldous Leonard Huxley
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„Existuje jediný koutek ve vesmíru, který můžeš s jistotou zlepšit a to jsi ty sám.“

Varianta: Je tu jenom jeden kout vesmíru, který můžeš určitě vylepšovat a to je ten vlastní.

„Cudnost - nejhorší sexuální perverze.“

Varianta: Cudnost: nejhorší sexuální perverze.

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Aldous Huxley citáty a výroky

„It’s dark because you are trying too hard.
Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.
Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.“

Širší citát:

"It’s dark because you are trying too hard.
Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.
Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.
Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.

I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig.
Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me.
When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic.
No rhetoric, no tremolos,
no self conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell.
And of course, no theology, no metaphysics.
Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light.

So throw away your baggage and go forward.
There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet,
trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair.
That’s why you must walk so lightly.
Lightly my darling,
on tiptoes and no luggage,
not even a sponge bag,
completely unencumbered."
Zdroj: Island

Aldous Huxley: Citáty anglicky

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

Aldous Huxley kniha Brave New World Revisited

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

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

Zdroj: Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited

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

Aldous Huxley kniha Konec civilizace

Zdroj: Brave New World

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

Aldous Huxley kniha Konec civilizace

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

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

Aldous Huxley kniha Konec civilizace

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

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

Aldous Huxley kniha Konec civilizace

Zdroj: Brave New World

“Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.”

Aldous Huxley kniha Point Counter Point

Zdroj: Point Counter Point (1928), Ch. 17
Kontext: Ever since his mother’s second marriage Spandrell had always perversely made the worst of things, chosen the worst course, deliberately encouraged his own worst tendencies. It was with debauchery that he distracted his endless leisures. He was taking his revenge on her... He was spiting her, spiting himself, spiting God. He hoped there was a hell for him to go to and regretted his inability to believe in its existence.... it was even exciting in those early days to know that one was doing something bad and wrong. But there is in debauchery something so intrinsically dull, something so absolutely and hopelessly dismal, that it is only the rarest beings, gifted with much less than the usual amount of intelligence and much more than the usual intensity of appetite, who can go on actively enjoying a regular course of vice or continue actively to believe in its wickedness. Most habitual debauchees are debauchees not because they enjoy debauchery, but because they are uncomfortable when deprived of it. Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

“Can you say something about nothing?”

Aldous Huxley kniha Konec civilizace

Zdroj: Brave New World

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