Carolina QuotesLeaving you defenceless against the full consciousness of the fact that you can’t do without your fellow humans, and that, when you’re with them, they make you sick.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Ch. 18 (Staithes)
- work
- Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
- year
- 1936
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