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John John said: " Here is a book from 1811, when the creator of the Zeitgeist movie was barely a gleam in his Creator's eye (that's a joke, if you've seen the movie), about interpreting the Old Testament allegorically, especially focusing on its astrological significa ...more "

 
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Aldous Huxley
“Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.”
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited

Lawrence Durrell
“What are stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?”
Lawrence Durrell

Lawrence Durrell
“The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values. ”
Lawrence Durrell

Aldous Huxley
“What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash.”
Aldous Huxley, The Genius and the Goddess

Ayn Rand
“When a man feels fear without reason, you call him to the attention of a psychiatrist; you are not so careful to protect the meaning, the nature and the dignity of love.”
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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