Aldous Huxley

England
26 Jul 1894 // 22 Nov 1963
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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

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