Quote by Aldous Huxley
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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. – Aldous Huxley

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It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. – Aldous Huxley

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. – Aldous Huxley

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At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. – George Carlin

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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. – Hannah Arendt

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The disembodied spirit is immortal there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns. – Thomas Hobbes

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The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery. – Bianca Jagger

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Dear Life: When you give me dilemmas, I make dilemmanade. – Author Unknown

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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. – Enid Bagnold

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