We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and…

Aldous Huxley
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We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. ✨ Aldous Huxley (2009). The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, p.10, Harper Collins
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