Carolina QuotesThat which besets me is indifference. I can't be bothered about people. Or rather, won't. For I avoid, carefully, all occasions for being bothered. ... Indifference is a form of sloth, and sloth in its turn is one of the symptoms of loveless-ness. One isn't lazy about what one loves. The problem is: how to love?
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Ch. 2
- work
- Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
- year
- 1936
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