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Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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