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De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

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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
Thoroughgoing
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Revolutionary
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Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful -- if strenuously led -- as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress.
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You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk.
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Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.
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