Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.Aldous Huxley
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”
— ALDOUS HUXLEY
Novelist & Essayist · 1894 – 1963
English writer best known for the dystopian novel Brave New World (1932). He later explored mysticism and psychedelics in works such as The Doors of Perception (1954).
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