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

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
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Poet
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Science Fiction Writer
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Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
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The flower of the present rosily blossomed.
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Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.
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Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
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They're old they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now But God doesn't change Men do though
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