“Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”

— Henry Miller

A fragment of Miller's unfinished book on D. H. Lawrence, originally published in the London literary journal Purpose. note: The Wisdom of the Heart (1941)
Source: Creative Death", p. 5

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American novelist 1891–1980

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