Quotation by

Aldous Huxley

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

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The quotation means that during certain emotional or inspired moments, people believe that truth, goodness, and beauty are connected as a single idea. However, when they try to express this feeling clearly in writing and others see it, the idea often seems foolish or absurd.

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