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Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.

Henry Miller

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Henry Miller
Age: 88 †
Born: 1891
Born: December 26
Died: 1980
Died: June 7
Essayist
Novelist
Painter
Writer
New York City
New York
Genri Miller
Henri Miller
Phineas Flapdoodle
Everything
Even
Follows
Midst
Certainty
Ghost
Chaos
Dead
Given

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