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'Life', said Emerson, consists in what a man is thinking all day. If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine.

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
Life
Intestine
Emerson
Intestines
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Bigs
Nothing
Men
Thinking

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Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.
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Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.
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We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music.
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Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.
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Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.
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Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.
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