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Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.

Aldous Huxley

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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
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Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
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All right then, said the Savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.
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[I am not] the captain of my soul I am only its noisiest passenger.
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Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
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The only truly consistent are the dead.
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I don't care where I'm from, nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.
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We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.
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A love of nature keeps no factories busy.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure as a monster he was superb.
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