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The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes

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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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Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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They're old they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now But God doesn't change Men do though
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