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Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.

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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
Impulse
Madness
Passion
Feeling
Feelings
Even
Spills
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Flood

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