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What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

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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
Anthrax
Popping
Bombs
Beauty
Knowledge
Point
Around
Truth

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Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.
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It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.
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Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London.
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To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
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People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.
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The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is.
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Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.
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Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!
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