"After Many a Summer Dies the Swan" Quotes
A Hollywood millionaire seeks the fountain of youth in Aldous Huxley's satirical exploration of immortality and the human condition.
fiction | 368 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The real problem is that men have absolutely no dignity. They're never ashamed, because they feel no shame. They're not even aware of themselves as individuals. It's only in the mass that they find some sort of identity.
The whole business of existence is a perpetual struggle, a conflict between the will to power and the will to submit. The will to live and the will to die.
There's nothing more revolting than a moral person.
My dear, most people are more lonely than they have any idea of. They'll go to any lengths to escape it.
The trouble is that we've been brought up to believe in the sanctity of our own individuality and the dignity of self. We've been educated too long in the cult of 'I'.
You think you're happy because you're successful. You're not. You're successful because you're happy.
Don't mistake symbolism for reality. It's a mistake made by all the great religions of the world.
The only thing that can be truly said about God is that he's a perfect idiot.
Love is the most beautiful thing in the world. And the most ridiculous.
The tragedy of life, or of man, is that he can't understand the truth about himself, and that's why all the philosophies and religions were created.
