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- Falecido(a) em22 de novembro de 1963 · Los Angeles, Califórnia, EUA (Laryngeal cancer)
- Nome de nascimentoAldous Leonard Huxley
- Apelido
- Ogie
- Altura1,95 m
- Aldous Huxley nasceu o 26 de julho de 1894 em Surrey, Inglaterra. Era autor e diretor e foi conhecido pelo seu trabalho em Island, Vingança Pérfida (1948) e Orgulho (1940). Foi casado com Laura Archera Huxley e Maria Nys. Morreu o 22 de novembro de 1963 em Los Angeles, Califórnia, EUA.
- CônjugesLaura Archera Huxley(19 de março de 1956 - 22 de novembro de 1963) (sua morte)Maria Nys(10 de julho de 1919 - 12 de fevereiro de 1955) (sua morte, 1 criança)
- He died on November 22, 1963, the same day that C.S. Lewis died of kidney failure and President John F. Kennedy was shot to death in Dallas, Texas.
- He got his wife to inject him with pure LSD on his death bed.
- The legendary American rock band The Doors took their name from Huxley's "The Doors of Perception".
- He appears on the cover of The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".
- His friend J.B.S. Haldane's ideas regarding artificial wombs, ectogenesis, and ectogens influenced his novel Brave New World (1932).
- Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence, it comes about that at their first appearance, innovators have always been divined as fools and madmen.
- To his dog, every man is [Napoléon Bonaparte]; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
- Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
- Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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