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Aldous Huxley

A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts… The name was an abstraction, a title arbitrarily given, like “France” or “England,” to a collection, never long the same, of many individuals who were born, lived, and died within him, as the inhabitants of a country appear and disappear, but keep alive in their passage the identity of the nation to which they belong.

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