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Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
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Science Fiction Writer
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
Solemn
Rare
Cease
Else
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Feasts

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