Lawrence DurrellPeople only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.
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In the quote, “People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it,” the author is saying that people are not able to see that there is something deeper at work in their actions. They loose sight of the driving force that makes people act the way they do.
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