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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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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. – Aldous Huxley

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People intoxicate themselves with work so they wont see how they really are. – Aldous Huxley

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It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living. – Eric Hoffer

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Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives. – Abu Bakr

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It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. – John Steinbeck

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I dont think kids have a problem with death. Its us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened. – Helena Bonham Carter

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In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Religion is the metaphysics of the masses. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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