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Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Ignore death up to the last moment then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.
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Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.
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Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.
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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
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