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“Be gentle with them, Timothy. They want to be free, but they don't know how. Teach them. Reassure them.”

— Aldous Huxley

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Wikiquote: Aldous Huxley
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Reported to be Huxley's last words to Timothy Leary, which Huxley whispered from his deathbed. Quoted in Timothy Leary, Flashbacks: A Personal and Cultural History of an Era (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1990 [1983]), "Life on a Grounded Space Colony", p. 192

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Huxley, Aldous. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Aldous Huxley. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley

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