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This reads as a plain statement about the cost of standing apart. It can be taken to mean that difference, even when chosen honestly, can leave a person isolated, and a quiet scene where it lands is a room full of people who do not quite know how to receive someone who does not fit the group.
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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