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Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

Aldous Huxley

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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
Screenwriter
Writer
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Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
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God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.
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Suddenly to realise that one is sitting, damned, among the other damned--it is a most disquieting experience so disquieting thatmost of us react to it by immediately plunging more deeply into our particular damnation in the hope, generally realized, that we may be able, at least for a time, to stifle our revolutionary knowledge.
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If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners.A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock.
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It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.
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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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