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I like being myself. Myself and nasty.

Aldous Huxley

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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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Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism .
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Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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To his dog, every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs.
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Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.
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which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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