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To be cured, we must rise from our graves and throw off the cerements of the dead. Nobody can do it for another - it is a private affair which is best done collectively. We must die as egos and be born again in the swarm, not separated and self-hypnotized, but individual and related.

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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
Best
Private
Separated
Self
Nobody
Collaboration
Done
Dead
Graves
Hypnotized
Must
Dies
Ego
Swarm
Individual
Related
Swarms
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Affair
Egos
Another
Throw
Collectively
Change
Rise
Cured

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