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Aldous Huxleyauthor profile |
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| born | December 13, 1901 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| died | November 22, 1963 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| gender | male | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Godalming, Surrey, United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| genre | Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Travel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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about this author
Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death in 1963. Best known for his novels and wide-ranging output of essays, he also published short stories, poetry, travel writing, and film stories and scripts. Through his novels and essays Huxley functioned as an examiner and sometimes critic of social mores, norms and ideals. Huxley was a humanist but was also interested towards the end of his life in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism. By the end of his life Huxley was considered, in some academic circles, a leader of modern thought and an in...more |
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books by Aldous Huxleycombine editionsavg rating: 3.89 | 40286 ratings | 102 distinct works
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quotes by Aldous Huxley
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
— Aldous Huxley
— Aldous Huxley
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"Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic."
— Aldous Huxley
— Aldous Huxley