Nathanael West, quote from Aldous Huxley, Those Barren Leaves, circa 1931-40

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Nathanael West, quote from Aldous Huxley, Those Barren Leaves, circa 1931-40



“It was then that I learned
to live only in the moment
—to ignore causes, motives
antecedents, to refuse
responsibility for what
would follow. It was
then that I learned, since
the future was always bound
to be a painful repetition of
what had happened before, never
to look forward for comfort
as justification, but to
live now and here in the
heart of human reality in
the very center of the dark
hive.”
But there is a spontaneous
thoughtlessness which no



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