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In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being as we are, so we know.

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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Poet
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.
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Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
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Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.
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I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.
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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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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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