Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everythin…

Henry Miller
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Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. ✨ Henry Miller (1959). The Henry Miller Reader, p.356, New Directions Publishing
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