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Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.

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
Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.
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...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey Kiss me till I'm in a coma.
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Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.
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Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
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No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.
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Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
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Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.
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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in the profound and unfathomable mystery of life which has a sort of divine quality about it.
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Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
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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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I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe.
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Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life the individual is nothing Nature cares only for the species.
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