Carolina QuotesWe can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
Source
p. 159
- work
- The Doors of Perception (1954)
- year
- 1954
- locator
- p. 159
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