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> [“... one is creeping into middle age and is less easily distracted by one's appetites, which have grown feebler, and by one's passions, which seems such a bore - all but the consuming desire for knowledge and understanding. That grows.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-murray/one-is-creeping-into-middle-age-and-is-less-easily-distracted-by-one/)

[Nicholas Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-murray/)

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> [“...one is creeping into middle age and is less easily distracted by one's appetites, which have grown feeble, and by one's passions, which seem such a bore - all but the consuming desire for knowledge and understanding. That grows. -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-murray/one-is-creeping-into-middle-age-and-is-less-easily-distracted-by-one-2/)

[Nicholas Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-murray/)

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## More by Nicholas Murray

> [ “\[Huxley's Perennial Philosophy is concerned with\] the need to love the earth and respect nature instead of following the example of those who 'chopped… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-murray/huxley-s-perennial-philosophy-is-concerned-with-the-need-to-love-the/)

[Nicholas Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-murray/)

> [“All deeply good characters in imaginative literature, have to be, as it were, diluted with weakness or eccentricity; for only on such conditions are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-murray/all-deeply-good-characters-in-imaginative-literature-have-to-be-as-it/)

[Nicholas Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-murray/)

> [“...we have been content to drivel along with our current educational systems, most of which neglect all the essential things and leave their victims…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-murray/we-have-been-content-to-drivel-along-with-our-current-educational/)

[Nicholas Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-murray/)

> [“Why one goes on writing when one sees what writing can be - and what one's own writing is not. Aldous Huxley”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-murray/why-one-goes-on-writing-when-one-sees-what-writing-can-be-and-what/)

[Nicholas Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-murray/)

> [“Huxley believed tat anyone "with a gift for the knowledge of ultimate reality" could do far more good "by sticking to his curious activities…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-murray/huxley-believed-tat-anyone-with-a-gift-for-the-knowledge-of-ultimate/)

[Nicholas Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-murray/)

> [“... one is creeping into middle age and is less easily distracted by one's appetites, which have grown feebler, and by one's passions, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-murray/one-is-creeping-into-middle-age-and-is-less-easily-distracted-by-one/)

[Nicholas Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-murray/)

> [“...one is creeping into middle age and is less easily distracted by one's appetites, which have grown feeble, and by one's passions, which seem…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-murray/one-is-creeping-into-middle-age-and-is-less-easily-distracted-by-one-2/)

[Nicholas Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-murray/)

> [“Selfhood is a heavy, hardly translucent medium, which cuts off most of the light of reality and distorts what little it permits to pass.'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-murray/selfhood-is-a-heavy-hardly-translucent-medium-which-cuts-off-most-of/)

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