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An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is.
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Proportion ... You can't help thinking about it in these London streets, where it doesn't exist ... It's like listening to a symphony of cats to walk along them. Senseless discords and a horrible disorder all the way ... We need no barbarians from outside they're on the premises, all the time.
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Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable.
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An irrelevance, and your life's altered.
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In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high in reality, very low.
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Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it.
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What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.
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