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The only consistent people are the dead

Aldous Huxley

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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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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
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I don't care where I'm from, nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.
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