Our Refusal to Face Reality
It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them, the wrong-minded ones, as much or more as from others. If we have not yet succeeded -after how many centuries? - in eliminating from life the elements which plague us perhaps we need to question life more closely. Perhaps our refusal to face reality is the only ill we suffer from, and all the rest but illusion and delusion.
Henry Miller, in 'Stand Still Like the Hummingbird'
Henry Miller, in 'Stand Still Like the Hummingbird'
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Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
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