The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total ana…

Aldous Huxley
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. ✨ Aldous Huxley (1956). Adonis and the alphabet: and other essays
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We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters. ✨ Aldous Huxley (1933). Retrospect: an omnibus … ▶
Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh? ✨ Aldo … ▶
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. ✨ Aldous Huxley (1956). Adonis and the alphabet: and other essays

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