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The city grows like a cancer I must grow like a sun. The city eats deeper and deeper into the red it is an insatiable white louse which must die eventually of inanition. I am going to starve the white louse which is eating me up. I am going to die as a city in order to become again a man. Therefore I close my ears, my eyes, my mouth.

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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
Like
Dies
Eating
Eventually
Eye
Therefore
Red
White
City
Mouth
Order
Close
Cancer
Become
Grow
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Louse
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Cities
Deeper
Starve
Going
Grows
Ears
Insatiable
Men
Eyes
Sun
Eats

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