Carolina QuotesFor in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
Source
"Sermons in Cats"
- work
- Music at Night and Other Essays (1931)
- year
- 1931
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