Carolina QuotesEverything that ever gets done in this world is done by madmen.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Ch. 22 (Mr. Scogan)
- work
- Crome Yellow (1921)
- year
- 1921
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“Everything that ever gets done in this world is done by madm…” Aldous Huxley. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-914E344E8B. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/914e344e8b
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I suppose you imagined I was so insanely in love with you that I could commit any folly. When will you women understand that one isn't insanely in love? All one asks for is a quiet life, which you won't allow one to have. I don't know what the devil ever induced me to marry you. It was all a damned stupid, practical joke. And now you go about saying I'm a murderer. I won't stand it.
“But if one doesn't really exist, one wonders why...” she hesitated. “Why one makes such a fuss about things,” Anthony suggested. “All that howling and hurrahing and gnashing of teeth. About the adventures of a self that isn't really a self — just the result of a lot of accidents. And of course,” he went on, “once you start wondering, you see at once that there is no reason for making such a fuss. And then you don't make a fuss—that is, if you're sensible. Like me,” he added, smiling.
Beauty for some provides escape, Who gain a happiness in eyeing The gorgeous buttocks of the ape Or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.