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Quote by Henry Miller
In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other. – Henry Miller

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The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. – Henry Miller

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What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it? – Henry Miller

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