Imagine he said, never even thinking, 'We are alone,' simply because i…

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Imagine he said, never even thinking, 'We are alone,' simply because it has never occurred to you to think that there's any other way to be. ✨ Douglas Adams (2009). Life, the Universe and Everything, p.63, Pan Macmillan
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Imagine he said, never even thinking, 'We are alone,' simply because it has never occurred to you to think that there's any other way to be. ✨ Douglas Adams (2009). Life, the Universe and Everything, p.63, Pan Macmillan

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