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"I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery."
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"Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing."
"The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself."
"I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A."
"The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back."
"I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale."
"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation."
"Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying."
"Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover."
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 rich never have a chance of being neighborly to their equals. The best they can do is feel mawkish about the sufferings of their inferiors, which they can never begin to understand, and to be patronizingly kind."
"In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem ..."
"The strange words rolled through his mind; rumbled, like talking thunder; like the drums at the summer dances, if the drums could have spoken; like the men singing the Corn Song, beautiful, beautiful, so that you cried."
"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."
"He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul."
"The physique of a Messiah. But too clever to believe in God or be convinced of his own mission. And too sensitive, even if he were convinced, to carry it out. His muscles would like to act and his feelings would like to believe; but his nerve-endings and his cleverness won't allow it."
"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."
"Yes," Mustapha Mond was saying, "that's another item in the cost of stability. It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's also science. Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled."
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