Who is Aldous Leonard Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly 50 books, both novels and non-fiction works, as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems.Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with an undergraduate degree in English literature. Early in his career, he published short stories and poetry and edited the literary magazine Oxford Poetry, before going on to publish travel writing, satire, and screenplays. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine ...
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Aldous Leonard Huxley Poems
- Winter Dream
Oh wind-swept towers,
Oh endlessly blossoming trees,
White clouds and lucid eyes,
And pools in the rocks whose unplumbed blue is pregnant ... - The Defeat Of Youth
I. UNDER THE TREES.
There had been phantoms, pale-remembered shapes
Of this and this occasion, sisterly ... - The Flowers
Day after day,
At spring's return,
I watch my flowers, how they burn
Their lives away. ... - Valedictory
I had remarked--how sharply one observes
When life is disappearing round the curves
Of yet another corner, out of sight!--
I had remarked when it was "good luck" and "good night" ... - The Alien
A petal drifted loose
From a great magnolia bloom,
Your face hung in the gloom,
Floating, white and close. ...
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Tokyoskywalker: most ignorance is vincible ignorance. we don't know because we don't want to know. （aldous leonard huxley）Tokyoskywalker: most ignorance is vincible ignorance. we don't know because we don't want to know. （aldous leonard huxley）
Tokyoskywalker: most ignorance is vincible ignorance. we don't know because we don't want to know. （aldous leonard huxley）
Textopian: "because, finally, i preferred this," the controller answered. "i was given the choice: to be sent to an island, where i could have got on w... - aldous leonard huxley, brave new world
Zioinfiltration: "for at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice, and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf or religious and political idols." aldous leonard huxley
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