Carolina QuotesDon't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat — and the boat is perpetually sinking.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Ch. 6
- work
- Island (1962)
- year
- 1962
Cite this record
“Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and …” Aldous Huxley. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-7D56E6FB0D. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/7d56e6fb0d
More from Aldous Huxley
Words — I wonder if you can realize how much I love them. You are too much preoccupied with mere things and ideas and people to understand the full beauty of words. Your mind is not a literary mind.
Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
Mary looked at it for a moment, gravely and intently. Her purple pyjamas clothed her with an ampleness that hid the lines of her body; she looked like some large, comfortable, unjointed toy, a sort of Teddy bear — but a Teddy bear with an angel's head, pink cheeks, and hair like a bell of gold.