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Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable.

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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
Without
Shelter
Love
Intelligence
Beings
Necessary
Food
Freedom
Human
Impotent
Humans
Unattainable

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