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Henry Miller1891–1980

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

Henry Miller on risk

The Rosy Crucifixion I: Sexus (1949), Ch. 14, p. 339

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