The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, d…

Henry Miller
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The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. ✨ Henry Miller (1941). The Wisdom of the Heart, p.2, New Directions Publishing
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