1. Notes: 53 / 6 months ago 
   "If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution — then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise."
   - from Wanted, a New Pleasure, 1931 by Aldous Huxley [July 26, 1894 -November 22, 1963]
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2. Notes: 225 / 1 year ago  from theparisreview
   "All my thoughts are second thoughts."
   - Aldous Huxley (via theparisreview)
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3. Notes: 44 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
   

   If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution - then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise.
   Aldous Huxley

   thanks to Solarixx and her Opium Vision

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4. Notes: 29 / 3 years ago 
   "Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities."
   - Aldous Huxley
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