Carolina QuotesDefined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
Source
"The Substitutes for Religion, The Religion of Sex"
- work
- Proper Studies (1927)
- year
- 1927
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