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Henri IV's feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation.

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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
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Armpits
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This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions and personal liberty For overpopulation is not compatible with freedom.
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I am I, and I wish I weren't.
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There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
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Nothing is more dreadful than a cold, unimpassioned indulgence. And love infallibly becomes cold and unimpassioned when it is too lightly made.
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People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.
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We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.
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The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of eternity into the soul, and through which love can pass from one soul in time to another soul in time.
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The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
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When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.
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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.
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Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity
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Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
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Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.
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Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.
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Happiness is never grand.
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Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be
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Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the higher life.
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Blood of the world, time staunchless flows The wound is mortal and is mine.
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An irrelevance, and your life's altered.
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Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of each of us would some day depend upon our winning or losing a game of chess. Do you not think that we should all consider it to be our primary duty to learn at least the names of the pieces and how to position them on the chessboard?
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