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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#corner #improving #only #own #self

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#mind #more #original #powerful #religion

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#beings #condemned #conventions #fact #human

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#europe #his #image #man #metaphysical

You realize you have no control over how you're perceived. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#how #over #perceived #realize #you

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#beings #either #hang #human #human beings

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#god #knowledge #make #only #redemptive

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#darkness #explained #fantastic #know #more

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#corner #improving #only #own #self

I've made a lot of grown men cry with laughter, because I really am quite the joke. ↗

— Peta Wilson

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