"True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself."
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Henry Miller, in Strive to Love, Anticipate with Hope, Believe in Faith, p. 29
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Henry Miller
Henry Valentine Miller (26 December 1891 – 7 June 1980) was an American writer and artist. He was known for developing a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, stream of consciousness, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association, and mysticism.
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