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But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.' 'In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.' 'All right then,' said the Savage defiantly, 'I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.' 'Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.' There was a long silence. 'I claim them all,' said the Savage at last. Mustapha Mond shrugged his shoulders. "You're welcome," he said.


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He also served on the editorial board with IAldous Huxleyrwood Heard and playwright John van Druten from 1951 through 1962. From these he put forward some warnings in his writings and talks. In 1944 Huxley wrote the introduction to the "Bhagavad Gita: The Song of God" translated by Swami Prabhavanada and Christopher IAldous Huxleyrwood which was publiAldous Huxleyd by The Vedanta Society of Southern California.

He is also well known for advocating and taking psychedelics. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry and publiAldous Huxleyd short stories poetry travel writing film stories and scripts. Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family.

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