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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
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Science Fiction Writer
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Godalming
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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We live together, we act on, and react to, one another but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.
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I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.
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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!
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