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I'm sick. I've eaten civilisation and I'm sick.

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
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Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
Civilisation
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I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.
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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.
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The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.
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