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Dream in a pragmatic way.

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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Blood of the world, time staunchless flows The wound is mortal and is mine.
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The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.
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Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.
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Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.
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I don't care where I'm from, nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.
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I'm sick. I've eaten civilisation and I'm sick.
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