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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

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#celery #dark #i #like #losing

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

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#agreeable #almost #boredom #comes #excessive

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

#how #over #perceived #realize #you

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

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#bullying #ends #everyone #good #human

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

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#believe #exclusively #generally #right #something

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#any #before #come #divided #itself