It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and be…

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 (1943). The Collected Works of 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 (1943). The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley

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