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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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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
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Two
Enough
Heart
Frozen
Every
Feed
Love
Birds
Drop
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The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.
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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
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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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