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This points to the pressure that happiness can place on people when it becomes an obligation. Read one way, it suggests that chasing your own happiness is difficult enough, but living under other people’s happiness can be even more demanding, because it asks you to measure yourself against their expectations. It lands in family life, social media, or any room full of comparison.
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About Aldous Huxley
English writer and philosopher
Aldous Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. He is known for a body of work that stretches across nearly 50 books, and includes nonfiction, essays, narratives, and poems. His writing ranges widely in form, which is part of why he is remembered as both a literary figure and a thinker. The breadth of his bibliography points to a career shaped by reflection, argument, and invention.
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Books by Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
2004
Crome yellow
2007
Antic Hay
2004
Brave New World Revisited
2004
Those barren leaves, a novel
1949