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

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of eternity into the soul, and through which love can pass from one soul in time to another soul in time.
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Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.
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Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.
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