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Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.

Aldous Huxley

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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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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.
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Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
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Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.
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