Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe t…

Henry Miller
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Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern. ✨ Henry Miller (1941). The Wisdom of the Heart, p.22, New Directions Publishing
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