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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
Certainty
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Chaos
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At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love―just enough to feed the birds.
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I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
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Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made it impossible for these to become manifest. In short, they are suffering from the silent shameful conspiracy (the more shameful since it is unacknowledged) which has bound them together as enemies of art and artists.
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