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Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
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Science Fiction Writer
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.
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The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.
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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.
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The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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