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Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.

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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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Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.
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And what strange voices they have! Sometimes like the complaining of small children sometimes like the noise of lambs.
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Only times and places, only names and ghosts.
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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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It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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