Carolina QuotesA belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour, and survival a thing beyond the bounds of possibility.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
Source
"Variations on a Baroque Tomb"
- work
- Themes and Variations (1950)
- year
- 1950
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“A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is do…” Aldous Huxley. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-8CEBCA2902. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/8cebca2902
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