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The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

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