“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.”

—Aldous Huxley

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

—aldous huxley

“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”

—Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days… Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me… So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling…”

Aldous Huxley, Island

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”

—Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.” ”

—Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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