Towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying t…

E. M. Forster
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Towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves. ✨ Collected Works of E. M. Forster.
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Towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves. ✨ Collected Works of E. M. Forster.

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