“There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this that in immensity there is one lonelier than you.”

— Theodore Sturgeon, book E Pluribus Unicorn

Source: E Pluribus Unicorn

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American speculative fiction writer 1918–1985

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