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Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
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Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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