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

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
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Science Fiction Writer
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Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
Civilisation
Eaten
Sick

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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?
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Everyone belongs to everyone else.
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay.
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The only truly consistent are the dead.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful -- if strenuously led -- as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress.
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Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of symbols.
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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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