Left to ourselves, mechanistic and autonomic, we hanker for friends. ✨…

Lewis Thomas
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Left to ourselves, mechanistic and autonomic, we hanker for friends. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1990). A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
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Left to ourselves, mechanistic and autonomic, we hanker for friends. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1990). A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

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