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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
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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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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That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
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