Carolina QuotesTo aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
Source
“Spinoza’s Worm”, p. 75
- work
- Do What You Will (1928)
- year
- 1928
- locator
- p. 75
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