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"No free man needs a God; but was I free?How fully I felt nature glued to meAnd how my childish palate loved the tasteHalf-fish, half-honey, of that golden paste!My picture book was at an early ageThe painted parchment papering our cage:Mauve rings around the moon; blood-orange sun;Twinned Iris; and that rare phenomenonThe iridule - when, beautiful and strange,In a bright sky above a mountain rangeOne opal cloudlet in an oval formReflects the rainbow of a thunderstormWhich in a distant valley has been staged -For we are most artistically caged."
"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."
"When no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a heroic wanderer, and woman, a wanderess."
"If the holy spirit is in you, you are free, even if you are in a physical jail."
"It is at the precise moment that I take something for granted that I have placed myself in the precarious position of losing that very thing. And if that thing I risk losing is liberty, taking it for granted is foolishness of the most foolish sort."
Explore more quotes by Aldous Huxley
"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it."
"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."
"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."
"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm."
"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
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