Carolina QuotesHe acted as if he could detect in her face nothing but its external beauties of form and texture. Whereas, of course, flesh is never wholly opaque; the soul shows through the walls of its receptacle.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Ch. 1
- work
- Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
- year
- 1936
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